Trip: Gone Amuck and other Adventures
There are [11] stories from my trip: Gone Amuck and other Adventures
CANADA | Friday, 2 Oct 2009 | Views [20]
Ice cream. The lure of ice cream resulted in a high speed dash for Dawson City. It was the first time I’d been behind the wheel of a car after ten days being chauffeured over the Dempster Highway. The loose gravel made my hand unsure. ... Read more >
Tags: yukon, 1898, gold rush
CANADA | Wednesday, 30 Sep 2009 | Views [46] | Comments [1]
Top of the World After the strangeness of Downtown Chicken I needed some time to settle back into solitude of my existence. I’ve grown fond of my life without hysteria and paranormal. Top of the World is one of the roads ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 28 Sep 2009 | Views [16]
For a couple weeks my theme seems to have been rain. If it quits raining I’ll go to Kodiak Island. It’s raining, I’ll go back to the cabin – at least I had been privileged to use a cousin’s cabin. There will be another summer for Kodiak Island ... Read more >
UNITED STATES OUTLYING ISLANDS | Sunday, 27 Sep 2009 | Views [18]
The debate – which way do I go home. With just two highways between Tok, Alaska and Whitehorse, Yukon the decision should not be hard, yet I have been struggling with it for days. Tombstone Park has been calling since I left in July. The other ... Read more >
UNITED STATES OUTLYING ISLANDS | Friday, 11 Sep 2009 | Views [24]
Water is lapping my toes. Just a few minutes ago I was up to my ankles in Portage Lake. I felt an ache, then numbness. Not far from my feet float large, blue-hued chunks of glacial ice. Occasional groans distract from the lapping water ... Read more >
Tags: alaska, kenai fjords, chugach
USA | Sunday, 6 Sep 2009 | Views [74]
No other single word epitomizes Alaska as does Denali – grandest, wildest, largest . . . Evening campfire banter, stories of Alaskan adventure, is characterized by two topics. The first is Denali. The other – salmon. Sitting ... Read more >
Tags: ada, disability access, road pass
UNITED STATES OUTLYING ISLANDS | Sunday, 23 Aug 2009 | Views [60] | Comments [2]
It was raining when I arrived at Kenai Fjords National Park. The result. I had to do one of my least favorite camping duties – pitch a tent in the rain. Early in my camping adventures there would be more water inside the tent then in the puddles ... Read more >
UNITED STATES OUTLYING ISLANDS | Sunday, 16 Aug 2009 | Views [26]
Silver, Red, and Pink Salmon Spawning Every time I drive through Seward people are peering into the bushes – cameras to their eye. There is absolutely no scenic beauty to the spot. It is just a slough, maybe a drainage ditch flowing out of ... Read more >
Tags: salmon, seward, alaska, artifical insemination, fish hatchery, in vitro, spawn, spawning
CANADA | Saturday, 15 Aug 2009 | Views [52]
Moose have always intrigued me. Legs far too long. A face that incites giggles. Rolling eyes which always seem bloodshot, encapsulated by an ever-moving ring of white. A dangly bit hanging from their neck. Antlers large enough to be ... Read more >
Tags: dempster highway, kenai fjords, camping
CANADA | Monday, 27 Jul 2009 | Views [50] | Comments [3]
My complexion is dotted with small, red pocks. I’ve developed an incessant twitch. Each hair on my leg is sensitized to movement. The skin on my arms reacts to the slightest touch. Movements in the air result in wild grabs and loud ... Read more >
Tags: yukon, northwest territories, gizzly, muskox, dempster highway
USA | Friday, 14 Mar 2008 | Views [331] | Comments [1]
For many years, thirteen years to be more precise, I’d heard about an uncommon visitor on the California coast. To my disappointment Al B’s visits to Point Arena started one year after I finished my studies at Pacific Union College. It took over ... Read more >
Tags: the great outdoors, surfing, birdwatching
