While Emily and I were traveling on our Honeymoon, we decided to visit Alaska as our cruise. We got off the boat in Skagway and had our zip line adventure booked.
After completing the high ropes course in a beautiful forest, we decided to tour the town. Walking down the historic streets, it was clear to see this town tried to keep their rustic look and historic feel. There were no big box stores or established eateries, only local places.
Upon finishing our walk down the main street, we came upon the Klondike Gold Rush National Park headquarters. Being a history buff, I convinced Emily to take a tour with me... Little did she know it would spawn a new life goal and eventually lay the plans for almost every travel trip from there on out.
Well, this was the start of many traditions to come. We visited the attached bookstore and decided to purchase a magnet. When we went to check out, we saw the national park stamping stuff and thought for a minute. Since I'm into geocaching, this seemed like a great idea. Travel around the United States looking for unique stamps that are sometimes difficult to get and show you beautiful and historic parts of the world.
Emily allowed me to buy my first passport book and we stamped two stamps. The first was the typical circular stamp with the date, and second was a special stamp just for that location. We also saw there were stickers and Klondike just happened to have a sticker. Well, about $15 later we had our passport, stickers, and first stamps.
We soon made plans to change our driving route from Vegas to San Diego so we could include a few other stamps and our new adventure was born.
Stamp #1 - Klondike Gold Rush NHP / Skagway, AK - Jul 26 2010
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