The fog rolled in overnight. So our plans of spending the day of halibut fishing was kind of out the window. We were still able to take the boat out with Captain Pete, but were not able to go very far. Which was pretty much fine with me because it was a little like a...
The following day we took a road trip, the three of us, over the mountain pass and to Valdez. My husband’s Aunt and Uncle live there and graciously opened their home to us. The trip to Valdez is very long. 51/2 hours through many many mountains and over many many lakes, I mean rivers. The...
The next day we headed in a completely different direction. Toward Kenai and the Red Salmon Run going on in that part of the state. There are four different kinds of Salmon up there in the wild woods of Alaska. Kings, Silvers, Reds and Pinks. On this trip we caught three of the four. Alaskans, I...
I read the book “Into the Wild” a couple years back, and even though I think the kid in it was really kind of a dumb ass, (yeah, I think he kind of deserved that phrase) I have always had a mental picture in my head about the back woods of Alaska. And the buses there and the...
We traveled North. WAY North. To Alaska. We had some of the most amazing adventures, that I won’t soon forget. Full of sunshine, and fish, grizzlies, ice caves, mountain ranges that make the Rockies look like mole hills, family and fantastic food. It of course was mass chaos before we left, but I will...