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 with 100F weather and a humidity heat index of 104F. (40C for my metric friends). Quite a difference over the cool Alaskan 50F’s I left. When I stepped off the [...]

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 burning my face….something familiar….could it be, THE SUN !! After a week of gray and rainy weather, we were granted one day of spectacular sunshine to close out our Alaskan [...]

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 and trail system that I explored during my desperate hunt for bears last year. It was also the last place in Alaska that I went with my friend Jessica before [...]

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