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Klondike by Jerry W. Bird While most travelers approach the fabled 'Inside Passage' from various points due south, my first experience of this 1,200 mile Marine Highway, was from Canada's Klondike, having plied the Yukon River for four eventful days aboard the SS Casca, a classic paddle-wheeler ; chugging and puffing our way upstream from Dawson City to Whitehorse. After an overnight at the Regina Hotel, with its ornate lamps and Victorian furnishings, we boarded the narrow-gauge White Pass & Yukon Railway for a day trip, detraining on a wooden platform at historic Skagway. This sleepy little seaport on Alaska's Lynn Canal, came to fame 100 years ago, during the Jefferson (Soapy) Smith era, as a lawless, rough and ready frontier town at t he foot of the White Pass. More->     .	From Calgary, Alberta ... head west via Kicking Horse Pass; swing south at Golden, following the Columbia River to Cranbrook Kimberly in BC's East Kootenays. At Elko, BC, the train heads east via Crowsnest Pass ... (Continued) Welcome Aboard ... Alaska Railroad, the last full-service railroad in the United States. We owe our success of the past 77 years to hard work and dedication. From tidewater at Whittier and Seward to the heart of Interior Alaska, our route covers more than 500 miles. (Continued) Cruise the World Spacious skies, purple mountain majesty, fruited plain, amber waves of grain. See America the Beautiful, go Cross Canada by train (details) or take a Cruise around Africa Adventure Isles . Barge Excursions Canoe Journeys . Discovery Coast . Klondike Memories . Shipwrecks . Queen Charlottes . Seaplane Travel	Alaska Cruises ... From Vancouver, cruise companies offer the Inside Passage Cruise and Glacier Cruise, with the same luxury and service as on Ocean cruises.(details) Rocky Mtn High .... Check out the Rocky Mountaineer from Vancouver via Kamloops to Banff-Calgary and Jasper National Park. (details) Mother of all Rail Tours. Trans-Siberian Express rolls through the broad steppes, crossing mountain passes, skirting Lake Bakail (world's deepest) and mile upon endless mile of desert - from Moscow to Vladivostok, seaport of the Pacific. (Continued) ... to San Francisco .... to Cape Town, SA ... to the Caribbean ... to Cape Town, SA