In this video, Cheryl and I are going to Mendenhall glacier
as inexpensively as possible.
That's coming up right after this.
We're heading out away from the ship in the port going to where we
can pick up transportation to town.
The video is sped up five times normal speed.
Just to make things go a little bit quicker.
. You guys are looking for two tickets to downtown.
Can you handle the shuttle?
Yeah.
Scooter.
Yep.
Scooter's fine.
Can you transfer out to a seat.
Yeah.
Okay then.
Yeah, you're good.
Okay.
Is it good for all day?
Yes, it is.
Yep.
All day where it drops you off and pick you right back up that same spot.
Okay.
Back and forth.
know, If you guys, if you need help.
And they had Cheryl bring the scooter up and stop right here,
waiting for this shuttle to arrive and they've let the ramp down and
Cheryl's gonna maneuver her way in.
Now this scooter was provided courtesy of ScootAround for our use on this cruise.
We really appreciated it.
Now it does not affect any of the comments that we're going to make about the scooter
during this or any of the other videos.
Cheryl would park the scooter and transfer to the seat.
Now she's back on the scooter and we're headed off the shuttle into
the area near downtown Juneau.
. Thank you.
As we come off, we're gonna look around just a little bit and see what's.
Cheryl I'll stop.
And we're gonna talk about things sort out where we want to go.
And then we'll be off to explore.
One comment I'd make about Juneau and traveling with a wheelchair or a scooter
is the area around the cruise port, as you'll see, is really very flat.
And as you stay close to the water, you're gonna have fairly level terrain.
Now you start to move away from the water.
Then the terrain starts to go up.
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We're headed over now toward the terminal, the lower terminal of.
Mount Roberts tram.
And this tramway goes up Mount Roberts as per the name.
And it's interesting.
It takes you up about 1800 feet in five minutes.
Now the tramway is accessible that worked for most people for Cheryl.
She's not a tram fan.
You can see the tram car descending overhead, but she wanted no part of that.
She doesn't like heights.
Though in another video, she did ride the zip line in Icy Strait Point.
But anyway we're gonna look here for just a second and we'll see where
it's gonna, where they're gonna take the tram car in and dock it there.
And then we're off to continue our exploration.
And we're headed over toward a building.
That's got many of the typical shops that you find in just about every cruise port
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Anyway, this like I said, these are the typical stores that you
find just about everywhere, except for Tracy's King Crab Shack.
Now we didn't eat at Tracy's, but it has a reputation of having some of
the best Alaska king crab legs around.
One thing I will say is when you're here in Alaska, they're not gonna be fresh.
It's not king crab season.
If you watch the Deadliest Catch that happens in the middle of winter,
but we're gonna explore the area.
Cheryl's taking a quick look at the map, trying to decide where she wants to go.
Now you can see some of the signs there.
You've got Del Sol, you've got the bamboo place and Diamonds
Internationals in there.
We're gonna go around the building here and you right now, we're
staying right here by the Harbor.
So we're gonna continue around the building.
She's gonna go in, she had a coupon for a free charm.
That is one of her things.
We don't buy stuff as a way of souvenirs and things like that, but
she is going to go collect a free charm right before we finish the
rest of, our journey around downtown, you can see they've got a ramp here.
Most of the, stores are at, dock level, but this one's not.
So she's gonna go up the ramp.
and I think this was Diamond's International, but I'm not sure I
didn't get a picture of the sign.
So I apologize for that, but she's gonna go in and find her
free charm and then she's coming back out and we'll be off again.
And now that she's collected her charm right now, we're moving
the video at normal speed.
We're gonna go around this corner and speed it up to five times again.
We wanna, we have lots of territory to cover today, and so
we want to do it fairly quickly.
Question of the day.
Have you been to Juneau?
If so, do me a favor.
In fact, one way or the other, let me know in the comments, whether you've been to
Juneau, we stopped for just a second to discuss our plan and we're back off again.
You can see that it's a fair distance.
Like I said, we're going five times.
Normal speed.
Cheryl liked the fast button on the fast speed on.
a scooter.
So most of the time I was having to push it pretty hard to keep up.
We stopped for a second because we were trying to find the visitors
bureau and we realized, oh, went by it.
So we're gonna turn around and go here and take a look.
This is one of the visitors bureau locations.
And there's also a map there.
So we see where we are while we were there.
We found directions to where an ATM was.
And so that's where we're headed.
The sidewalks are accessible in this case.
This was an alley.
And so Cheryl just put it in high gear and we went on down the alley after we
found the ATM we got some cash and then headed out toward Menden hall on the bus
and, we'll see the bus coming back, but we found the bus stop there in downtown Juno.
We got on the bus and the bus takes you to about a mile and a
half away from Mendenhall glacier.
Cheryl would ride the scooter and I, most of the time I couldn't keep up.
She would zoom up and find a sunny spot and stop.
And I, would walk and catch up with her.
And then she'd zoom off and leave me again.
As you can see she's done here.
This was my view of Cheryl on the scooter from Scootaround.
Most of this cruise.
But we're coming up into the area by Mendenhall.
Another question for you, did you know that you can get to
Mendenhall without a tour or a car?
Let me know in the comments, please.
We slowed down to normal speed now, cuz I was tired.
No, not really.
We slowed down to normal speed.
Cheryl stopped to get some pictures.
Now we were there in, at the end of May and in fact this was
Memorial Day weekend and we had.
Beautiful weather.
It was totally amazing weather we had while we were in Juneau, you just
couldn't have asked for better, as you can see here, it's picture perfect
shorts, weather, t-shirt weather.
Cheryl's wearing her jacket.
She tends to be a little bit cold anyway.
And then with the scooter at the speed she was flying the, air cooler off even.
You can see Mendenhall glacier there in the distance that
building was an accessible restroom and that is Nugget Falls.
And you can hear them in the background.
This is just amazing.
We got a quick video of that before we started heading back.
In the mile and a half walk back to the bus stop.
You can see Cheryl getting on the transportation there
again, quick and easy.
And as Cheryl gets settled in and we'll get a chance to see her
sitting she'll stay on the scooter on this bus as we head back to town.
I will say that for someone on a scooter, this trip was really very easy to get out
and back for a 70 year old man, it was, a little bit more work, but we had a good
trip and Mendenhall is very accessible.
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