In which I embark on a short pilgrimage to my homeland to reach my fingers into the soil, pull out the roots of a relationship, and gain perspective…
I meant to post this yesterday, but I didn’t have time. It was going to be a “Happy Cinco de Mayo” post. Sort of.
May 5th, 2008, marks the three-year anniversary [...]

Thursday, September 27th, 2007
(Exactly two years after I last left Alaska.)
“Hi!” Mike shouted into the darkening wilderness as he and I walked down a narrow, gravel, mountain road, “My name’s Mike!”
We had been walking for a half hour and were almost out of daylight. If we couldn’t make it back to civilization when darkness fell, all we would have for illumination would be my phone’s [...]

Thursday morning saw our departure from Anchorage. Our next stop would be Sitka, an island in Southeast Alaska, the same region as Juneau and Skagway. Sitka was the capital of the Alaska Territory until 1906, when it was moved to Juneau. Today, it’s a cruise stop like Skagway, but it’s a bigger, more functional town. Not [...]

Mike and I faced our biggest day yet (show-wise) on Wednesday. We drove to Wasilla, about 45 minutes or an hour outside of Anchorage, where we performed six shows at Wasilla Middle School. At least it was six shows at one school, so we didn’t have to break down, set up, or drive between shows. [...]

After our shows were knocked out (Anchorage went well, but the Palmer kids and teachers were kinda snots), Mike holed up in our Anchorage hotel room to work on his screenplay, and I hit the road for sights unseen. (Apologies. I had pictures, but Walgreens severely screwed up the processing and printing. So this will be purely [...]

Here are a few more photos to go with my Alaskan posts up until now.
This is me at Hurricane Gulch on the way to Denali National Park & Preserve. It was taken mid-pose, which is why I’m inexplicably holding my telephoto lens as if I’m using it to shake martinis.

 On the road to and from Denali, Mike [...]

I was dining on the Clarion Suites continental breakfast at 7:30 (10:30 Central) this morning. ESPN was on the TV, and naturally, I paid no attention. Until I glanced up and saw the Superdome. I felt a jolt for a split second. The last time I saw the Superdome and New Orleans on TV in [...]

With an entire Sunday on our hands, Mike and I agonized over how to spend it. It was the only day we had entirely to ourselves in Alaska, and we didn’t want to waste it. We decided to drive to some places within an hour of Anchorage. At a gas station at 11:00 AM we [...]

How do you lose someone’s luggage on a direct flight?
Northwest Airlines has found a way.
Mike and I landed in Anchorage, Alaska, Saturday afternoon, and so did all of our stuff save one item: Mike’s suitcase. Apparently, the ticketing agent with whom we checked our baggage in Minneapolis slapped Mike’s tag on someone else’s bag and [...]