When you are staying at one of the quaint hotels in Alaska you will never need to worry about getting the right amount of sleep. If you are there in the summer and you are waiting for the sun to go down to go to bed you may never make it. The sun never really disappears for the night. If you are there in the winter you may worry that you will sleep like a hibernating bear. But these fine hotels have thick window coverings for the summer and loud alarm clocks for the winter.

Some great summer activities in Alaska include the outdoors. There are some really great hiking trails that lead you up to glacier beds and there are also some great lakes or coast line edges to do some fishing. You can get a little bit of it all on one such trail as the Chilkoot Trail that can be reached near Skagway Alaska out of a cove that use to be a town called Dyea. The Chilkoot Trail lead the the desperate miners during the Klondike Gold Rush. It is an amazing hike that still has many artifacts left on the trail from the old days of travelers trying to get there sleds over a peak that was deep with snow. It was a dangerous story for many then and a beautiful summer hike for many now.

In the winters of Alaska you will find the Northern Lights to entertain you. They are swirling waves of colorful light that dance through the nights sky. They are named after the Roman Goddess, Aurora, who was the goddess of the morning and the Greek word Boreas, which means north wind. They are basically, in layman’s terms atmospheric gases mixed with solar wind particles that come down are charged by the Earth’s magnetic field. At least that is the best way I can describe it. Either way you explain it this light show is one of a kind every night. It is never the same twice and it makes for a great cuddling activity on lovers lane.

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