Alaska - 23 Juneau

In Juneau, I signed up for a helicopter ride up to where Alaskan Huskies were being trained tas sled dogs. I was going to ride and mush a dog team. Unfortunately the weather grounded the helicopters so I chose a massage onboard the ship instead. Juneau is the capital city of Alaska. Located in the Gastineau Channel and the Alaskan panhandle, it is the second-largest city in the United States by area. It is larger by area than both Rhode Island and Delaware. Juneau was named the capital of Alaska in 1906, when the government of what was then the District of Alaska was moved from Sitka as dictated by the U.S. Congress in 1900. Juneau experiences a daily influx of roughly 6,000 people from visiting cruise ships between the months of May and September.[ The city is named after a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe Juneau, though the place was once called Rockwell and then Harrisburg (after Juneau's co-prospector, Richard Harris). Juneau is unique among the 49 U.S. capitals on mainland North America in that there are no roads connecting the city to the rest of the state or North America. The absence of a road network is due to the extremely rugged terrain surrounding the city. This in turn makes Juneau a de facto island city in terms of transportation, since all goods coming in and out must go by plane or boat, in spite of the city's location on the Alaskan mainland.