Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Small, Small Skagway

Skagway is small, really small (http://www.skagway.com/), with a population of approximately 800. This is Broadway, the main street. You can see all of the buildings from here. Despite its tiny size, though, it hosts more than 700,000 visitors per year (mostly on cruise ships), and one shopkeeper told another couple on the cruise with us that, last year, the jewelry stores alone took in $30 million, and the shops in the town combined took in $96 million during the five-month tourist season. ::gasp!::