When we started our trek across the USA, I should have anticipated that we would see things that our phone wouldn’t be able to accurately capture. Naively, I thought the technology I carried in my pocket would be enough to convey the memories and the emotions the places we visited evoked. It wasn’t until reaching the mountains of the midwest that I started to find that to be untrue. It was all too much, from the grandiose peaks of Colorado, to the red rock cliffs of Utah, down through the deserts and canyons of Nevada and Arizona. We found our phones storage filling up quick and discovered that it never quite captured the beauty of these sights. But it was on the ferry route to Alaska, that things came to a point where I realized we had to upgrade, or we would spend time regretting our mistake…

On our trip up to Alaska, our only route only thanks to Covid border closures, was to travel by water. We were happy to find that the Alaska Marine Highway System would allow us to stow our vehicle, bring Ares, and save us a lot of driving to boot. There are several helpful blog and YouTube posts out there, as well as the Ferry’s webpage which we used when deciding on the specifics of our booking…