Back from the bush!
July 04, 2008
Filed in: Alaska
Okay, technically it’s not the bush we’re back from. The bush is interior Alaska, and we have been in (and are still in!) exterior Alaska, the coast, Kachemak Bay, but for the rest of the world in the lower 48, it counts as the bush, so I’m stealing it unfairly as my blog post title.
Too...
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Heading out …
June 30, 2008
Filed in: Alaska
Hokay! We made it as far as Anchorage (as C said, fine, can we turn around and go home now?) Answer: no.
Now we’re heading the 255-something miles down to Homer, then across Kachemak Bay to our wilderness lodge. Emphasis on wilderness. That means right now we’re sitting in our pitly hotel room...
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Almost there—Napa to Anchorage today
June 29, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Way We Live Now
First can I say that C pulled up the seven-day forecast for Homer, Alaska on his iPhone yesterday afternoon as we were being driven to the most awesomest wedding ever in the history of nuptials and that we’re in for one entire week of straight rain?
Seriously, seven little crying cloud icons...
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Fear Factor
June 25, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front, The Middle Ages
I’m not really thinking of what’s happening tomorrow morning as a vacation. Adventure, yes. Trip-of-a-lifetime, yes. But vacation?
To our little family, vacation means plunking down a hunk of money for a house somewhere nice, then parking our butts in front of whatever nicest body of water is...
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Yeah, we got baggage
June 22, 2008
Filed in: Alaska, The Home Front
Way back in February, when I was just beginning to contemplate the idea of tagging an Alaska trip onto the family wedding in Napa that’s now upcoming this very week, I mentioned the idea to my friend M.
M is perfect. Literally. She is a size zero, an understated-yet-stylish dresser, a mad...
