It was a different sort of experience--looking at sea ice forming in a bay, outside of Anchorage.

   And here are two pictures of Laura in front of some _very_ large bears, in the Anchorage Airport:

   Now the following shot may not be all that interesting (and certainly of absolutely excrable quality)--but to someone who has been watching the sun just barely creep over the southern horizon at ~noon for about a month . . . a sunrise at ~7:30 A.M. was positively . . . astounding.  :)

Onward, James--and don't spare the engines.