What We Loved This Week: The Chilkoot Trail, Susan B. Anthony House and a Virtual Tour of Chicago
Travel Blog • World Hum • 07.16.10 | 5:13 PM ET
Eva Holland
The Chilkoot Trail. I spent four days hiking the old Gold Rush route from outside Skagway, Alaska, over the Chilkoot Pass to Bennett Lake, where the stampeders of 1898 boarded boats for the rest of the journey to the Klondike. It was hard work, but the scenery was outstanding. Here’s a shot from a few kilometers beyond the pass:
Photo by Eva HollandJim Benning
Monsoonal weather in Southern California, which yielded this rainbow I snapped in my driver’s side mirror yesterday.
Photo by Jim BenningMichael Yessis
The virtual architectural tour of Chicago—a moody shot of the Wrigley Building, the University of Chicogwarts—I took while researching a blog post. A good warm-up for my upcoming real-world visit to the Windy City.
Sophia Dembling
This photo is my new desktop wallpaper. It’s the Susan B. Anthony House in Rochester, NY. I recently took the suffragette tour of New York’s Finger Lakes region and was amazed and shamed by how much I didn’t know. I grew up during the second wave of feminism and admire those women, but gave little thought to their predecessors. Until now. Thank you, ladies. All of you.
Photo by Sophia Dembling
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Sophia Dembling 07.18.10 | 10:28 PM ET
The architectural boat tours in Chicago are wonderful.
http://caf.architecture.org/tours
Zaki 07.19.10 | 2:44 AM ET
Gold rush sites are amazing. It’s hard to believe that they still look like hundreds years ago!!!
Michael Yessis 07.19.10 | 9:54 AM ET
I so want to take one of the architectural boat tours, Sophia.
After reading “The Devil in the White City,” I also want to go see the 1893 World’s Fair Site. At least what’s left of it.
GypsyGirl 07.19.10 | 3:45 PM ET
Eva-
Skagway and the Chilkoot Trail are wonderful. Good to hear you were enjoying the area- I lived in Dyea for a while…still miss it.