I know, I know, I've been seriously slacking. It's been a busy week and I'm just entering yet another busy week. I have lots to write about, though, so soon enough there will be reading material. I'm sitting in the airport right now waiting for my connection from Anchorage to Valdez. The little plane we took from Kenai to Anchorage was fun. I love planes and flying, so the smaller the plane the better. This one was probably about a 20-seater. A Beechcraft something or other. It's a small prop plane where you can see right into the cockpit to watch the pilots while flying. Wow, if I'm this excited about the flight portion of my journey, maybe I should stop paying for vacations and just start flying around instead. Reminds me of Martin Sexton lyrics: It's in the journey, when am I gonna see there's no destination.
I'm freakishly tired - 1.5 hours of sleep last night and only 5 or 6 the night before. Ouch! I had to get up at 2:30am to catch this flight and of course I couldn't fall asleep until 1am. Typical. I'm slightly delerious, so, though I have the time now, I'm going to opt to write more later when I've got a shred of sanity. Dervid only got a few hours last night, too, so I'll be surprised if we don't bite eachothers heads off by the end of the day.
So, just a bit of what's to come. This week I:
-hiked to a glacier
-went on a glacier cruise
-had king crab legs for the first time
-saw a grizzly (in captivity)
-went fishing for the first time ever (and schooled the men on the boat)
-saw a bore tide
-came close to freaking out several times due to lack of sleep and abundance of stress
-had a great time
and much more that I can't remember right now, I'm sure!
One other notable thing. I dropped Lindsey, Courtney, Tyler and Brad off at the airport yesterday and before they got out of the car, Lindsey said, "your dad was everything you said and more. I am not disappointed," in a slightly excited, but mostly matter of fact tone. HA! I think people think I'm exaggerating when I describe my looney bin family. If they only knew the half of it!
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I'm originally from a small town outside of Boston, MA and I'll be spending the summer in Sterling, AK on the Kenai Peninsula. Here I'll talk about my travels, how different it is here (for me) and about anything else that's bouncing around in my head. Usually that stuff that's bouncing around in my head is my overanalysis of things I see and read.
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6 comments:
That was a rather general "looney bin family" statement there...
i accept the looney bin title with pride.
i figured you'd accept it. i on the other hand am "practically perfect in every way" so am not going to accept that i am part of the looney bin. ha ha ha, who am i kidding.
Tara, I had a great time and was so thrilled we didn't bite each others heads off, exhausted or not. Thanks for having me. And I accept the idea of "The father of the looney bins." I love you all!!
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Tara, e=mail your mother please, she's going out of her mind!!!
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She doesn't have Internet, or at least didn't while in Canada.. I spoke with her yesterday, told mommy that!
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