alaska

This week we have a dozen different events...music, festivals, magic, ribs, peaches, wrestling, and art...

It's the last month of summer, but that doesn't mean fewer fairs and festivals. In the next few weeks, there are 22 different events in the West Michigan area.

Last year, when we took our Alaskan Cruise and tour, we saw several bears, from a distance, mind you. But, the bears we saw didn't look like this one who created a traffic jam in Alaska as it sauntered down the road with a coffee can stuck on it's head.

100.5 The River‘s Andy Rent is touring Alaska with YMT Vacations and about three dozen people for nearly two weeks. They are all on the Grand Alaskan Cruise & Tour, a 12-day Alaskan escape. The group arrived in Vancouver on Sunday to board Holland America's ms Oosterdam. Check out some of Andy’s photos:

Fourteen Michigan Department of Natural Resources employees, who are trained as firefighters, currently are helping to contain wildfires in Alaska and Manitoba.

Our Alaskan cruise and tour is coming up in August, and I can't wait. I hear so many wonderful thing about Alaska. However, I haven't heard of family-friendly Moose before. You probably don't want to walk up to one, but imagine looking outside your front window and finding a family of moose playing in your lawn sprinkler. Welcome to Alaska.

I think I hear Alaska is calling.

It's time to think about another vacation. After all, it's a new year, and plans have to be made. I don't know about you, but I'm already tired and need a break. So, how about Alaska? Last year we took a wonderful 13-day trip to Hawaii, with YMT Vacations, and this year we're taking you on a 12-day cruise and tour of Alaska!

This is some pretty exciting video.  Not sure I would had sat there and watched this whole thing.  My thought would have been, "Holy Crap", are big waves going to be crashing on the deck soon?"   Watching this does make me go, hmmmm.  Maybe Al Gore is onto something after all and global warming isn't just a hoax...

A strange substance has washed up on shore in Alaska.