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Go fish - it's not always in the cards

Fly fishing is a sport for patient people requiring wide spaces, fresh flowing water and lots of time. There is an art to fly fishing. Indeed, the true fly fisherman or woman needs to know how to tie a fly and possess the proper fly pole. Ho

Barrow Bits

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 ...

Arctic Ocean Beach Bum

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 ...

Flamingos Return

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 ...

Lodge mixes nature and comfort

"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 ...

It Blows Here In Barrow

…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 ...

Get a Job!

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 ...

Autumn in Alaska? It is not as crazy as it sounds

The vast majority of people who visit Alaska do so during a narrow time window in the summer. That is when the state is ...

CHOCOLATE CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE!!!

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 ...

Back in the lower 48

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 ...

The final moments

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 ...

Eagle River

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 ...

The salmon are running....from us!

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 ...

Talketna

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 ...

Minefield...WTF??

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 ...

Denali highway

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 ...

Road Trip

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 ...

Bear Attack!

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 ...

Skilak lake

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 ...

Holy crap!

After breaking camp and making our way across a much more calm lake back to the mouth of the river, we parked the ...

Camping, Alaskan style

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 ...

wet, cold, and happy

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 ...

Fishing, cabins, and bears (almost)

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 ...

Back in bear country

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 ...

Aiming for Alaska

Alaska is our largest state and it would take years to explore all the treasures this magical place has to throw at you. Last ...

Oh yeah, there was a holiday back there....

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" ...

Prices on Alaska Cruises are Sinking Faster than the Titantic

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 ...

"The Police Blotter"

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 ...

Prince Rupert - again

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 ...

"The great thing about getting older...

"...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 ...