I set the alarm this morning for 6:30am. I don’t normally set an alarm let alone for 6:30 but the ferry was scheduled to leave at 9am and we didn’t know how long it would take to load the vehicles.
Other cars and a few RV’s started arriving about 7am. The ferry arrived from Skagway about 8:15am and they started loading about 8:35am. They loaded Gary’s rig, then one other RV before loading the motor home. It took a bit of maneuvering to get into position. We went down the ramp and pulled the front towards the far side, then we had to back up moving the front towards the side closest to the ramp. This took a couple of forward and backwards to get us headed towards the back of the ship. When we got to the back we had to do a U turn heading toward the front of the ship so that we were in position to drive out when we got to Juneau. I took this picture of cars being load after we got on the ship.
I got a good shot of Haines from the ship as we were leaving.
We arrived in Juneau about 1:30pm.
We are parked at the Fred Meyers Store in Juneau for the night. We plan on moving to the Mendenhall Glacier Campground tomorrow. For those of you that might be interested, the cost of the trip from Haines to Juneau on the ferry was a total of $433 for Twila and I and the motor home. It was $37 for each of us and $359 for the motor home. The motor home is figured at 42 feet long and is over wide due to the mirrors which are 9 foot apart. The motor home is charged at $5.69 per foot with a 50% sur charge for the width so it is about $8.55 per foot. A smaller less wide RV would be much less. Unfortunately my mirrors won’t fold in like most mirrors.
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