What a wonderful day today, I woke up and had an excellent morning of yoga with Chella. The captain Danno even joined us for the morning stretch. I can’t use enough flowery overly gratuitous words to properly cover the wonder of doing yoga outside in 40 degree weather with the mists shrouding the mountains and…
Category: Travel
Alaska – 09-09-2012 – Day 1 and 2 on the boat
We left Juneau yesterday and motored down to Tracy Arms Fjord overnight. Juneau was an interesting city, a state capitol of 30k people. However, it is a cruise ship tourist city with 30+ jewelry stores all owned by the cruise ships. An amazingly beautiful area when you get away from the city. I visited the…
Alaska – 09-08-2012 – Alaskan Thoughts
Spent yesterday in Fairbanks, AK waiting on my flight/trip to the arctic circle. I had called in the morning to check that everything was set. They warned me on the phone that weather was not nice up at the arctic circle and they would call me if they were going to cancel the flight. Sadly,…
Alaska – 09-08-2012 – Alaska – Why is it so early?
I am on vacation and I just caught a 6am flight from Fairbanks to Juneau (stop in Anchorage). I woke up and the temperature was 32 degrees, we even had to de-ice the plane. The airport was a breeze, arrived at 5am, check-in, flew through security, and walked right onto the plane. Alaska Airlines is…
Alaska – 09-07-2012 – On Buffalo and Beer
My Arctic Circle flight has been cancelled due to weather conditions. So the trip to Fairbanks, AK needs to be salvaged in some way. The University of Alaska Museum has a sound room that takes the sounds.of the world and translates it to music. if the earth has seismic activity you hear a rumble and…
Alaska – 09-06-2012 – On the Alaskan Railroad
I flew into Anchorage and grabbed a cab to the Marriott. I quickly dumped my luggage and rushed out to join the ghost tour. The day before I arrived a hurricane level storm had swept through the area. 120 mph winds that knocked out power and brought a taste of winter to Alaska. the mountains…
Alaska – 09-05-2012 – At the airport. Packed and ready to go
At the airport, it’s a miracle but I got everything packed into carry-on. I even managed to get an emergency row aisle seat. Alaska, here I come.
Greenfield Village
Sitting at Eagle Tavern at the Greenfield Village which is located in the Ford Museum. The world is set in the early 19th century with homemade beer and heirloom designed food. But around me is the 21st century overly technical and overly fake. Plastics and technology and people not talking to each other. A part…