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elwing got an e-mail yesterday requesting a phone interview for a tour guide job in Ketchikan; her interview is this afternoon. As for my son and DIL, no responses yet as far as I know (they were not home last night to inquire). elwing's starting date would be May 7 and the job would last until some time in September.

I thought she had decided against that one?

SportsFan68 wrote:I thought she had decided against that one?

No, she decided against pursuing one of the bus driver positions because of the length of training required. This job is as a tour guide. She would take tour groups around Ketchikan, mainly to the totem pole museum, and narrate on the way.

earendel wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:I thought she had decided against that one?

No, she decided against pursuing one of the bus driver positions because of the length of training required. This job is as a tour guide. She would take tour groups around Ketchikan, mainly to the totem pole museum, and narrate on the way.

A walking tour, then?

Good luck to her!

SportsFan68 wrote:

earendel wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:I thought she had decided against that one?

No, she decided against pursuing one of the bus driver positions because of the length of training required. This job is as a tour guide. She would take tour groups around Ketchikan, mainly to the totem pole museum, and narrate on the way.

A walking tour, then?

Good luck to her!

The totem pole museum is a short bus ride outside of town, IIRC.

I recall having a young guy (substituting for his grandfather?) for our walking tour of Ketchikan, which didn't include that museum. He did a terrific job and had a very entertaining anecdote about his job working for the tribal corporation.

MarleysGh0st wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote:

earendel wrote: No, she decided against pursuing one of the bus driver positions because of the length of training required. This job is as a tour guide. She would take tour groups around Ketchikan, mainly to the totem pole museum, and narrate on the way.

A walking tour, then?

Good luck to her!

The totem pole museum is a short bus ride outside of town, IIRC.

Yes, it is. She would be on the bus with the tourists, giving them the lowdown on things.

earendel wrote:

MarleysGh0st wrote:

SportsFan68 wrote: A walking tour, then?

Good luck to her!

The totem pole museum is a short bus ride outside of town, IIRC.

Yes, it is. She would be on the bus with the tourists, giving them the lowdown on things.

Time does fly. It is coming up on 19 years since I took my father on a cruise to Alaska, which included the typical stop in Ketchikan and the tour to the totem pole museum. My father had an great uncle who went to Alaska at the turn of the last century to seek his fortune in gold and never returned. He died in Sitka, Alaska and was buried in the cemetery near the Alaska Pioneer Home located there. In addition my father was a fan of Robert Service, something that was passed on to me. We managed to fill two objectives as a result by visiting the grave, something no one else from my fathers family has likely done, before or since, as well as see a bit of the land that had inspired the poetry of Service. We had hoped to see a "performance" of Service's poetry at the malamute Saloon near Fairbanks but alas we were a few days too early in the season. We had booked passage on the first ship out of Vancouver that season which had departed in early May.

Several fond memories of that trip included spotting my first bald eagle in the wild (didn't take long and they later proved to be rather common place as they were every where), riding through a blizzard on the train from Anchorage to Fairbanks as we crossed the continental divide with caribou scattered about on each side, chasing a moose down the tracks near Denali trying to take a picture at midnight in the grey twilight that passes for nightime in Alaska (before I had learned the moose can get quite ornery when they have a mind to be) and marveling at both the scenery from the deck of the ship while traveling through the inside passage while most of the passengers, who were mostly on the far side of 60, spent the time in a blacked out theater playing bingo.

Admittedly it could be a little chilly outside but I never did quite understand that one....