Phone call update - Skagway and Haines

I talked to Dad and Mom last night, since they are in Alaska and not paying roaming fees. I got some new updates on what they've been up to. They have now been in Skagway (for the third time on this trip -since they were there with each of their cruises). They took a ferry from Skayway over to Haines, Alaska which is in the Inside Passage. Dad said that it was the only ferry they could afford and when I asked him how much it cost, he said it was $161! HOLY COW! $99 for the RV and $31 for each of them. Dad also told me that if they didn't take that ferry, they would have had to have driven 359 miles out of the way to get there, which would have been about 45 gallons of gas. Dad said that it only took an hour to get over there on the ferry. That fee was one way and from Haines they'll drive straight North. Dad said that in Skagway they saw four cruise ships docked there. They actually slept on the dock (in the Bellmobile) in Skagway. Dad said that one of the cruise ships was very "happy" and the people on it were very "happy." Dad mentioned a bunch of animals and said that a moose ran in front of the RV when they were driving. Only in Alaska!