Home once again

I actually managed to catch my flight the second time around and so as my plane flew over the dark gray mountains and milky, pure white glaciers of Alaska, my heart was a stew of emotions – sad for leaving my friend standing in such an outdoors paradise without me, happy that I could visit [...]

Thanks Delta

With a bloated 16KG backpack on the scale and an itenerary in hand, the Delta representative at the check-in counter chuckled and told me that I had missed my flight by 2 hours. They had failed to email me a new E-ticket, so I had written down the flight times while on the phone with [...]

Eagle River

I’m not sure which of us saw the giant brown shape on the trail just up ahead, but we both gasped in horror…. My friend and I had just walked maybe a mile or two through the woods along a trail in the Eagle River Nature Sanctuary, just 30 minutes north of Anchorage. It was [...]

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