First, Last Pickup Line Ever
I saw this thing on geeky pickup lines. It stirred up a random memory. On the bus home from Chugiak High a few days before school let out in 10th grade, I was an introverted 14 year-old, always horny and always lacking an appropriate venue for expression. She was some pretty face rando who didn’t...
New Year Resolution
Now that I have worked my butt off to get a home loan and have moved into the house, I have to counter all that stuffy nonsense and forego any additional work for a while. Otherwise I’ll get burned out. I can’t exactly take a vacation because I have spent all free cash. I have...
Beaches You’ve Been To. Or Not.
So we did it again. Our class went out into Resurrection Bay. We stayed within a day of Seward. This time we sailed on Lindsay II, anchored up in some pretty amazing places and spent some time exploring the shore. Bear Glacier at Bulldog Cove is great. I got up in the middle of the...
I’m your captain.
OK I have to admit. I didn’t take the cover photo of Yebo (the sailboat). Sailing Inc. did. In exchange, I’ll put them on my blogroll. Deal? Eloise says I’ve talked about sailing the world since she’s known me. I don’t recall ever telling her. It’s funny how she sees sides of me I hardly...
Aurora Borealis Over Anchorage
Eloise forwarded the message that we were going hunting. She found on SpaceWeather website a note that levels would reach a 4 for Alaska, which is good. “This is worth being tired tomorrow.” She said as I set up a camera tripod at a secret spot in South Anchorage. Sure enough, around 9pm, we started...
Fishing the Hub
If you live in Anchorage, your first choice for fishing is probably out-of-town. That may be about to change. By summer of 2011, the new William Jack Hernandez hatchery will be raising its first stock of rainbow trout and grayling destined for waters in the metro area. These fish will be released and swimming wild...
Likeness of Mona
It is a good year for Mona, the 700 pound brown bear. She birthed a rare three-cub litter near the cove this spring. The cove is their domain, but oddly they don’t mind as long as we stay in the boat. When I say “The Cove” I mean one of the most plentiful areas for...