Day 8: Last day of adventure. I felt like we’ve been gone a month. I have lost all recollection of what it is I do at my job and how I spend my days at home. All I know is that I eat crabs and drink beer and go on random excursions into nature. From [...]
Day 7: Today we went whale watching. We had the boat mostly to ourselves and we intimidated the five other people who were on the boat with us. They were all cruise ship people so this was pretty easy (we’re rolling with 10 people). We saw some tails, and we saw a baby jump out [...]
Day 5 and Day 6: Didn’t do too much either of these days – no big adventures on the calendar. I’ve adjusted to the time and to the getting-dark-at-eleven-thirty. It’s not a bad life: eat crabs, drink beer, eat fish, drink more beer. See some wildlife. There was a lull in the cruise ship traffic [...]
Day 4: Today started out with a quest for tomorrow’s dinner. We set out at 8am to catch king salmon. This was not to be. It seems our Alaskan luck had run out. The weather has never been this nice for this long, the Gilkey Glacier is never accessible, you have a 50/50 shot of [...]
Day 3: Today we (Kyle, Harold, Jack and I) went to see bears on Admiralty Island - specifically Pack Creek. Another first for me – first float plane flight. We were flying with Butch – a long time friend of Geoff and Marcy’s (Carin’s aunt and uncle). A little hot and stuffy inside the plane. We [...]
Day 2: Slept in late and awoke to rush out the door for a helicopter ride and a glacier trek. My pregnant wife is going to watch bears, or possibly vomit on the bears, depending on how the flight over goes. The helicopter ride to the glacier was amazing – my first ever. I wanted [...]
Day 1: I just slaughtered fifteen crabs with my bare hands. Flip the crap upside-down, grab the legs in your hands, use a rock to pry the top shell off the legs, then rip the legs in half. Fifteen crabs is a lot of crab.
We’re up in Juneau, AK for vacation. Carin’s aunt and uncle have lived [...]
