Cruising Glacier Bay

Written by Jenna Grant


Cruising Glacier Bay - Alaska

You can watch movies about it, you can hear about it, you can read about it, but until you partake of it, you have no clue how thrilling it is to cruise Glacier Bay.

Glacier Bay Mountain ranges with peaks over 10,000 feet, culminating in 15,320 foot high Mount Fairweather withinrepparttar Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

Nowhere else in Alaska, or inrepparttar 134032 world, can you seerepparttar 134033 amazing sight ofrepparttar 134034 tidewater glacier that spreads from a peak 3 miles high down to sea level, that is known asrepparttar 134035 Margerie Glacier.

Only 200 years ago,repparttar 134036 beautiful fjords and cruising areas of "Glacier Bay", were buried under ice thousands of feet thick. In 1794, Capitan George Vancouver sawrepparttar 134037 face of an enormous glacier at Glacier Bay's entrance at Icy Strait.

Naturalist John Muir found in 1879, thatrepparttar 134038 vast ice had withdrawn an impressive 48 miles uprepparttar 134039 Bay. Amazingly, by 1916, its face had receded 65 miles allrepparttar 134040 way back torepparttar 134041 entrance of Tarr Inlet, where it is today.

So, in only 200 years, these massive glaciers have left us withrepparttar 134042 beautiful, 65 mile long bay we enjoy now.

The glaciers onrepparttar 134043 Bay are extremely active and quite frequently, you get to hear or see "calving". It occurs when huge parts ofrepparttar 134044 glacier breaks off and falls crashing intorepparttar 134045 Bay.

The calving imitates an explosion, reverberating offrepparttar 134046 walls ofrepparttar 134047 glacier, andrepparttar 134048 ice makes a giant splash as it smashes into Glacier Bay.



How to Travel for Free by Leading or Promoting Tours

Written by Jacqueline Corbett


How to Travel for Free by Leading or Promoting Tours

Whether you're 16 or 60, you CAN travel just about anywhere inrepparttar world for free -- and even with a nice stash of cash in your pocket -- by telling like-minded people about a trip and convincing them to go with you. Get 5 to 20 to bookrepparttar 134031 same trip, and your trip is free.

© 2004 by Jacqueline Corbett TheLivingWeb.net

If you have a burning desire to seerepparttar 134032 Pyramids... or go on an African Safari... or snorkelrepparttar 134033 Great Barrier Reef ofrepparttar 134034 South Pacific... and don't haverepparttar 134035 cash, don't worry.

There's a good chance that you can travel for free to just about anywhere inrepparttar 134036 world your heart desires just by locating a group of like-minded folks and convincing them to go with you.

And if you are really good at convincing a lot of fellow travelers to join you -- and have chosenrepparttar 134037 right travel company -- you could also earn up to $10,000 a trip for your efforts.

Not bad for doing something you passionately enjoy doing, and meeting a whole bunch of people who enjoyrepparttar 134038 same kind of traveling you do.

There are dozens upon dozens of travel companies who are actively seeking individuals to help them organize tours -- or promote existing ones.

Age is no consideration. Whether you are 16 or 70, there is a tour or tour group that is bound to suit your travel interests.

Teachers are actively courted to promote tours to their students... and even given handsome cash stipends to boot.

High school and college students are sought to promote grad trips and spring break trips to their friends and classmates. Besides free trips and "rock star" treatment, successful promoters can often earn as much as $10,000 per spring break.

Ministers and church members are rewarded for telling church members about pilgrimages and trips torepparttar 134039 holy land. With as much as $10,000 to be made per trip, booking and leading tours is a wonderful way to raise cash for a church building fund... or augmenting a minister's meager salary.

Scuba divers can get a free trip by organizing a scuba dive trip and promoting it to their fellow divers.

Lovers ofrepparttar 134040 oriental culture can get free trips to Japan or China, while connecting with a whole new group of friends and earning enough cash to dine well and bring back lovely souvenirs.

Travel companies will often pay cash when you produce more reservations thanrepparttar 134041 minimum required to earn a free trip.

The number of paid trips it takes to get a free one varies from travel company to travel company.

Some require as few as 5. Others as many as 15 or 20.

Many companies will reward you with multiple trips.

Most will also offer a commission which gets biggerrepparttar 134042 more trips you sell.

It doesn't take any experience to get started -- and most travel companies supply you with lots of marketing materials and support.

The degree of involvement in planning and promoting a trip varies considerably.

For example, promoting a trip for a spring break can often be done quite casually. Some spring break travel companies will even send a representative to your campus to put on a meeting. A few phone calls to friends. Some posters placed aroundrepparttar 134043 campus. An ad inrepparttar 134044 school newspaper. And voila, you could easily have 15 or 20 people signed in no time. Some companies don't even require that you collectrepparttar 134045 deposits. And most will dorepparttar 134046 follow through in collectingrepparttar 134047 balance ofrepparttar 134048 trip fee.

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