TOD:
A week after my first year in law school, my parents, my Aunt Priscilla and I drove from Iowa through the Black Hills, through Yellowstone (we stayed at the Old Faithful Inn while there was still snow on the ground but the temps were in the 60s) through the Canadian Rockies to Prince Rupert Canada. Then we took the ferry to Ketchikan, Alaska. After a couple days there, my aunt caught a plane from the airport where the bridge to nowhere would end (it isn't really to nowhere, it's to the airport - the ferry there was fine) and we took a week long cruise through the Inland Passage. Our ship was small and we were able to do a bow landing at a glacier, I leaned over the front of the boat and got a glass of water from a waterfall, etc. We went to Haines, Skagway, Juneau, Sitka, through Glacier Bay and I'm sure I'm forgetting some of it.
Then we went back to Ketchikan for a night or two - we had a friend who lived there so we stayed at his house - and drove across Canada to Edmonton and south...through Fargo and back home. It took us about a month. It was a fabulous trip