Alaska Uncovered Podcast
Welcome to the Alaska Uncovered Podcast with your host, Jennie Thwing Flaming. Jennie brings you accurate, helpful and entertaining information about Alaska Travel and Life in Alaska. Guests include Alaska travel experts and Alaska business owners, guides and interesting Alaskans. Jennie is a born and raised Seattleite, a former Alaskan and spends several weeks in Alaska each year. She’s an experienced guide and the Founder of the Alaska and Washington travel website, Top Left Adventures. Jennie is joined by occasional co-host, Jay Flaming, her husband for 25 years. Jennie and Jay met working in tourism in Alaska and have lived in Skagway, Juneau and Fairbanks together. Jay lived in Fairbanks for 8 years before meeting Jennie in Skagway and grew up in Yellowstone National Park.
Alaska Uncovered Podcast
Riverboating in Fairbanks with Wade Binkley
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Wade Binkley, a fourth generation Alaskan and Riverboat Captain joins Jennie to talk about growing up on the river, learning to Captain riverboats on Alaska’s complex rivers and what makes the Riverboat Discovery such a beloved experience in Fairbanks.
Show notes:
Riverboat Discovery’s website (for booking, schedules and info)
Gold Dredge #8 (Wade’s family also owns and operates this experience with Fairbanks’s Gold Rush history)
Follow the Riverboat Discovery on Instagram
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Music credits: Largo Montebello, by Domenico Mannelli, CC.
