NEWS FLASH! AT&T, provider of AKontheGO connectivity, is sharing the love with our readers this month by offering a Fitbit Activity Tracker to one lucky person with a “Sweet Savings” promotional giveaway, only for AKontheGOers who utilize the social media platform Twitter (so if you’re not a Tweeter, this might be a good time to jump […]
Sometimes opportunities come along at inconvenient moments. Like, perhaps, when one is sitting astride a kayak in the middle of Frederick Sound, or waiting to board a ferry to Dutch Harbor. Opportunities with positive potential sort of freak me out, and I’m just lucky a) I didn’t dump the kayak, and b) I made the […]
Sometimes it’s the visual cues that provide the final “yes” to a vacation destination, and Alaska is no exception. The state’s traveling-est family (I just made that word up) has been busy this summer, and we’ve searched the photo galleries to find the best of our adventures. Now will you come visit us? ~EK Our […]
Good afternoon, AKontheGO readers and friends, there’s a quick alert that I feel I must share: AKontheGO has been nominated for a “Best Travel Blog” award by travel and consumer advocate, Christopher Elliott. Chris is a one-of-a-kind guy; he strives to make travel better for anyone, anywhere, and besides that, he’s pretty cool dad, too. […]
See this map? It floated around social media outlets for quite a while, and always makes me laugh. Alaska is big, really, really big, and after decades of inadequacy, finally someone got it right. As I’ve been making the rounds of local bookstores and community organizations these past few weeks, plugging sales for Alaska On […]
When I was but a wee traveler, my parents would pack the Volkswagen Bus with all sorts of gear and putt-putter around the Pacific Northwest in search of destinations to inspire their offspring. Most of those, I realize now, came from the size of the hotel swimming pool, taste of their silver dollar pancakes, or […]
With an abundance of premier ski resorts scattered across the United States, envisioning a family vacation to schuss the snowy slopes of Alaska seems a little far-fetched, doesn’t it? The Rocky Mountains are much closer, the Wasatch much drier, and the Cascades much cheaper. Why the heck would mom and dad spend a bundle to […]