J’s Index – Alaska

September 24, 2023 /

*Note: If you are subscribed to my posts, you may have seen this one already. I accidentally posted it instead of scheduling, but I didn’t intend to have this post go live until I finished my other Alaska posts. So I took it down and am re-posting it now.*

This post is an homage to the Harper’s Index, a summary of our trip to Alaska. The photo above is from our whale watching trip. It was so beautiful, it looked like a painting to me.

Number of Flights Taken – 7

Number of Boat Trips – 2

Number of Rental Cars – 3

Number of Airbnbs – 3

Number of towns visited – 4

Number of train rides – 1

Number of miles covered on the train – 356

Number of hours spent on the train – About 12

Number of live moose spotted – 1 (by me only)

Number of live eagles spotted – 1 (all of us)

Number of live bears seen – 0

Number of Taxidermied animals spotted – too many to count

Number of trams taken – 1

Number of whales seen – at least 10, likely more

Number of times we saw the Aurora Borealis – 0 🙁

Number of times the Aurora Borealis was going on, but was not visible to us – 4 or 5

Number of Ice Cream shops visited – 2

Number of Sunny Days – 2 out of 11

Number of balance issues that I had – 0

Number of days I did my vestibular exercises – maybe 3

Number of days I did my planned daily yoga – 1

Number of t-shirts I bought – 4

Number of childhood friends I met up with – 1

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