{"id":24532,"date":"2015-06-22T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cruisingdoneright.com\/?p=24532"},"modified":"2015-06-22T01:00:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T08:00:11","slug":"monday-22-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/?p=24532","title":{"rendered":"Alaska: A Land Of The Midnight Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Midnight<\/a>ALASKA — Yesterday was the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In <\/span>Alaska<\/a>, it was longer…or at least it looked that way.<\/span><\/p>\n

When the cliche “the sun never sets on…” is bandied about, nowhere is it more valid…nowhere does it have more authenticity than in the Land of the Midnight Sun<\/i>. Whatever time is on the clock or watch or smartphone, bedtime comes with sunshine. To deal with it, Alaskans put foil on the windows so they can fall asleep.<\/p>\n

Visitors like us pull the blinds as tightly as possible and hope that slit of light will not be the root of insomnia.<\/p>\n

The picture above was taken 13 minutes before midnight from the Denali Princess Lodge, as close as this load of Star Princess<\/a> cruise passengers came to the Arctic Circle, a couple of nights before Summer Solstice. The sun really does never set further north, where it’s the brightest all night long on the 21st of this month. That’s one of the things that makes an Alaska cruise so unique in June.<\/p>\n

In the 49th state — and other places this far north — long daylight is one of the things that makes life unique. Helicopters take tourists on rides over the mountains until 8:30, stopping then only because the pilots aren’t allowed to log any more hours. Young children are able to sleep in daylight, perhaps, because that’s the only summer they’ve ever known. Maybe Alaskans welcome illuminated nights as the trade-off that comes with the dark days \"Tom<\/a>of winter when they rarely see the sun for long.<\/p>\n

In the Alaska Baseball League, since 1960 there has been a Midnight Sun Game played on June 21 in Fairbanks<\/a>, home of the Alaska Goldpanners. Last night’s game started at 10:30. One of the game’s alumni is Tom Seaver<\/a>, who went on to pitch his way into the Baseball Hall of Fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“You can explain it forever,” Seaver recently told Alaska historians. “Until you experience it, you just don't believe it.”<\/p>\n

Seaver was right.<\/p>\n

In the news…<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/u><\/p>\n

• Harmony of the Seas on the water for tests in readiness for 2016 launch<\/span><\/p>\n

Today at portsandbows.co<\/span><\/a>m: <\/strong><\/em><\/span>AmaWaterways, Viking a creative pair<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Costa Diadema<\/a>
\n\t7 nights
\n\tDecember 12, 2015
\n\tSavona<\/a> (return): Marseille<\/a>, Barcelona<\/a>, Palma De Mallorca<\/a>, Rome<\/a>, La Spezia<\/a>
\n\tInside: $499
\n\tCost per day: $71<\/strong>
\n\twww.costacruise.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALASKA — Yesterday was the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. In Alaska, it was longer…or at least it looked that way. When the cliche “the sun never sets on…” is bandied about, nowhere is it more valid…nowhere does it have more authenticity than in the Land of the Midnight Sun. Whatever… Continue reading Alaska: A Land Of The Midnight Sun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,32,15],"tags":[45,1666,57,1213,912,72,819,35,30,1999,26,27,957,178,2000],"class_list":["post-24532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cruise-industry-news","category-deals","category-stories","tag-alaska","tag-baseball","tag-costa-cruise","tag-costa-diadema","tag-cruise-bargains","tag-cruise-deals","tag-cruise-news","tag-cruises","tag-mediterranean-cruise","tag-midnight-sun","tag-phil-reimer","tag-ports-and-bows","tag-princess-cruises","tag-star-princess","tag-tom-seaver","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaluna.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}