Haines, AK: rest day (needed after 4 nights on deck)

Haines made the cover of Outdoor Magazine as one of the top 20 places to live (2006) in the U.S. Julia was ready to move in “sight-unseen” the day she got the magazine. It is actually a very nice place … a small nice place … 775 miles from any U.S. town of any size or 230 miles from Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. It has only two roads in and out: the Haines Highway and the Alaska Marine Highway (the ferries system). The locals we met kept apologizing about the rain – it does rain a lot there … a big lot! But we awoke the next morning to brilliant sunshine - in the sun; it is a magical place. I can see why people live there: a glimpse of the pristine beauty on all quadrants and they can close their eyes to a lot of adverse weather for many months.