Alaska 2024: Juneau

In Juneau we went to the Mendenhall Glacier. My dad walked out to the waterfall, a two mile round trip hike. My mom and I had intended to walk out to the waterfall but neither of us was as prepared to do it on the day as we had expected, so we sat at the scenic overlook for an hour and then the three of us toured the visitor center. The time at the scenic overlook was extremely peaceful, meditative, beautiful, and moving. It was like having a picnic there without the food. This was probably the best experience of the cruise. I'm not sure it would have been possible to plan to do this if we had wanted to, so the fact that we were able to do it when we chickened out on the waterfall hike was extremly fortunate.