Thursday, July 3, 2014

Alaska - my 50th State

Yes, I have finally made it to all 50 states now!! (plus the District of Columbia of course, and Puerto Rico...so I still have a few territories left to visit)

Here I am setting foot on land in Alaska for the first time:
It was quite chilly and rainy - welcome to Ketchikan!  With an average of 153 inches of rain a year, it's no wonder it was raining almost the ENTIRE time we were there.  Their driest year ever was *only* 88 inches of rain, which is over twice as much as D.C. gets on average in a year.

"Liquid sunshine" as they call it.


In case you need more proof that I actually made it to Alaska...


And it finally did stop raining, just in time to get back on the boat...so I thought I'd do a redo of my "first picture on land in Alaska" without the umbrella :-)

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