July 6, 2008 -- Ketchikan

We arrived in Ketchikan at 7:00 AM after two nights on the water.  Had to breakdown the air mattresses and repack the bags, etc. and then had to repack the motoryclc to get off the ferry.  We were the lucky ones because those that were continuing on had to change ferries here because the ferry we were on had to go into maintenance.  That meant they had to repack and unpack unexpectantly.  The folks on the motorcycles weren't too pleased because they had packed to bring everything on board once.

Ketchikan is quite a neat town.  We walked through the downtown area and visited the Totem Heritage Center.  There was a cruise ship in town, but not a lot of folks around the stores.  We stayed in one of the older hotels in downtown Ketchikan (had to share a toilet and bathtub).  The hotel overlooked main street and the waterfront.  There was snow on the peaks on the hills across the bay.  We could watch seaplanes take off and land from our room.

The older section of town along the creek was where the original settlers had resided.  We visited one of the original brothals.  The railcar took us a hotel at the top, and then we walked back down seeing more totems and other historic builidngs.