Coming Out of the Country
July 06, 2008
Filed in: Alaska
Yes, the title is a play on John McPhee’s brilliant Coming into the Country, which I am about halfway through and will someday reagle/bore you with my thoughts on (I know that’s not quite 100 percent good grammar, but bear with me—I’m typing in the dark next to my snoring family). “In to the...
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Da Bears
July 05, 2008
Filed in: Alaska
OMG you guys we did it! We went on our bear safari and we survived—we survived the tiny, rattly little Piper Cub flying mere feet above the towering cliffs and angry gray ocean and huge threatening clouds of Cook Inlet, we survived the landing-on-the-sand business, and we survived seeing lots of...
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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...
