6/4

Today i hit just above everything to do in Skagway, other than shopping.

Breakfast at the B&B where i stayed, oddly a really poor breakfast: 2 small-diameter double-thick pancakes, & a strip of bacon. Doubly odd since this hotel shares a building with a real restaurant. Whatever. There was coffee, and a place to sit and do computer stuff.

I attended 3 performances:

• A theatre stage show with singing/dancing/drama portraying the history of Skagway.
• A show in a bar where, besides the acting/singing, they also taught you how to mix up historic drinks (and drink them).
• A tour of an actual historic bar/bordello, heavy with innuendo & double-entendre.

These were all by re-enactors, portraying actual historic characters, in period costume of course. They were really well done.

Then the train ride, which could'v been cheesy but again, it was really good. The ride was ~3hrs long (~$129) and went all the way up to alpine White Pass on the Canada border. The railroad line & company is the 1 actually operating since ~1898. Views (and drop-offs) were incredible. What most surprised me is they're running at least 4 long passenger trains, each with 2 or 3 engines, all day long. It's a big operation. (A local guy i talked to said the trains are great cuz they get a lot of tourists out of town for awhile.)