More Pictures of Juneau in the Summer

During Special Session, my daught and I were lucky enough to get a small apartment just two blocks from the Capitol. This is a shot of the Capitol from the west side of the building as taken from my apartment. I had some great landlords that actually held my apartment for the Second Special Session without charging me for the time I wasn't there. Rent in Juneau is very expensive and during the tourist and fishing season it is almost impossible to find affordable housing. Most people ended up staying in exdpensive hotel rooms during the second special session.

My daughter, Katharine, was a House Page during the special sessions and was thrilled to meet former Governor Wally Hickel when he came to Juneau to talk to legislators about gasline issues. Hickel served as Governor of Alaska 1966-1969, 1990-1994, and also as U.S. Secretary of the Interior, 1969-1970.

Today Governor Hickel devotes much of his time to the Institute of the North which he founded. The organization's mission is to teach people in Alaska and from around the world about the obligations of ownership, as Alaska's and most of the world's resources are commonly owned.

Tourists line the outside of a cruise ship as it docks at Juneau. Five to six ships can line up in Juneau on a given day a the street are crowded with people from all over the world shopping at the dozens of gift shops lining the streets of downtown Juneau.

While dwarfed by the cruise ship, the sternwheeler on the right docks in Juneau once a week and offers a different mode of transportation to Juneau.

This view of the channel was taken from outside my apartment in Juneau. I was amazed by the number of yachts that spend the night in the Channel.

Malcolm Roberts accompanied Governor Hickel to Juneau to discuss gasline issues with the legislature. Here I am with