Articles tagged with "Alaska"
We have found 99 articles tagged with "Alaska".
Posted on: Squeezing It All In | 2007-09-09 14:30:37
I've been up here for over two weeks and, sad to say, I've pretty much seen everything in town - and it's a bit of ...
Posted on: Squeezing It All In | 2007-09-01 19:22:01
It's the first of September and the beginning of the the 3-day Labor Day Weekend. Slept in a bit - I usually have to ...
Posted on: Sketching a Twisty Path on the Globe | 2007-09-01 13:00:16
So, it’s time to pack up all the great belly laughs, people, and experiences of Sitka and tie them into a knapsack to carry over my brain’s ...
Posted on: WhatATrip | 2007-08-31 21:44:04
"What cruise ship are you sailing?" That's the question I'm asked when I say we're Alaska bound. This is our third year landing on the ...
Posted on: Squeezing It All In | 2007-08-27 19:09:25
…but more about that later.
My home for the next month is an apartment on the corner of Ogrook and Kongasak and the Arctic Ocean is ...
Posted on: Squeezing It All In | 2007-08-27 18:57:07
Well, after a year living fancy-free, it's time for yours truly to replenish the bank account. Since I don't really have any skills that ...
Posted on: Cheap Ticket Links | 2007-08-13 16:46:40
The vast majority of people who visit Alaska do so during a narrow time window in the summer. That is when the state is ...
Posted on: Sketching a Twisty Path on the Globe | 2007-08-09 18:45:14
A cloudy and drizzly Monday, prepped for a snoozy afternoon. All of a sudden the hospital is filled with activity. Ordinary clothes covered with white ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-09 00:49:31
After an exhausting 16 hour travel day, I arrived back in Kentucky with my father...both of us still in one piece. Mostly.
Kentucky welcomed me ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-08 00:51:14
A strange sensation came over me....one that I had not felt almost this entire trip. I was no longer cold, and there was something strange ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-07 23:55:36
After calling an end to our fishing, we continued to drive south into the small town of Eagle River, which has an awesome nature center ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-07 23:01:21
08:00 came around early after my accidental Bluegrass music ambush that I walked into last night.
We packed up at the hostel and left Talketna ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-07 13:55:54
We rolled into Talketna, Alaska in the evening, just as shadows were starting to become a little longer and the sun was getting a little ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-06 17:53:39
I have been around UXOs (unexploded objects) in the Army and strangely never quite felt comfortable around them. Imagine an object, built only for one ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-06 16:56:31
Wow...who would have guessed that driving across a gravel road for 130 miles in the rain could be a pain?
Normally, as you cross the ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-06 16:36:00
After my 4 hours of sleep (my fault) we got up early, checked out of our small hotel, and hit the road driving north on ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-05 16:01:14
OK, just kidding. :)
Alaska is much, much more than just mountains. The population grows steadily, even despite the constant exodus of people born here that ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-05 15:49:09
After our bear encounter, the ride across the lake was much less eventful than yesterday's wild ride. For an hour, I sat on the front ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-03 02:26:57
After breaking camp and making our way across a much more calm lake back to the mouth of the river, we parked the ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-03 01:20:06
Our cabin was awesome.
It had been refurbished since whatever hard-core, backwoods guy had built it, but the original frame was there. Skip got a ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-03 01:02:56
Despite the near miss of both a record trout and spotting a bear today, I couldn't help but smile.
Here I was, in the middle ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-02 00:20:20
I felt the line go tight in my hands and gave it a sharp but jerk which proved to be too little too late.
About ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-08-01 02:21:29
Somewhere in the midst of my sleep induced head bob that was kinking my neck, I peeped out the window at the low cloud cover ...
Posted on: Vagabonding begins! | 2007-07-25 12:36:03
Alaska is our largest state and it would take years to explore all the treasures this magical place has to throw at you. Last ...
Posted on: Sketching a Twisty Path on the Globe | 2007-07-15 15:12:25
Hmm, after reading my recent family emails, I realized that I was the only one who didn't provide a "what I did on July 4th" ...
Posted on: Cruise and Vacation Packages | 2007-06-21 16:34:14
We've been hyping summer cruises to Alaska for some time now on this here little blog. Alaska is truly one of the best places ...
Posted on: Sketching a Twisty Path on the Globe | 2007-06-19 23:49:08
I guess this blog entry is plagarism, but deservedly so. I just sat at the table with a bowl of strawberry mini wheats, reading the Daily ...
Posted on: Where is Anne now? | 2007-06-11 20:18:46
I've had 2 nights to get here, on the ferry from Haines to Juneau first which was 2 hours late leaving due to all the ...
Posted on: Sketching a Twisty Path on the Globe | 2007-06-10 00:17:55
"...is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." Madeleine L'Engle.
Seems like the theme of this last week---from Friday Music Fest to Friday Music ...
Posted on: Sketching a Twisty Path on the Globe | 2007-06-03 01:32:54
A friend of my mother told her that she should "put a ball and chain" on me. Hmm, well, maybe I have one and the ...
