My travels were paid for by Alaska Tourism.
Alaskans have a really complicated relationship with their government and they will tell you all about it. Repeatedly and in great detail.
It is possible to eat salmon every day for a week and not get tired of it.
Distance is relative. I’m sure there’s an equation that multiplies road condition by miles divided by weather then multiplied again by the number of moose spotted to determine how long it takes to get somewhere.
A lot of the cliches about Alaska are true. It is not hard to encounter gold prospectors and subsistence homesteaders and scrappy women with rifles and bearded guys with bluegrass hearts and bush pilots who speak in poetry about the landscape.
And that landscape will knock the words right out of you on day one, leaving you with “Yeah, it’s amazing” because it takes, perhaps, a long winter to think through the color and the mountains and the sky.
I can completely understand why those guys talk about the landscape in poetry. It so beautiful!
Mmm, know exactly what you mean. I spent a delicious, jaw-dropping fall weekend in Anchorage and Talkeetna, years ago, and cannot wait to return…Alaska is truly unique. Splendid, really. But now I’m trying to find the adjectives…
Beautiful! Someday I’m going to check out those cliches for myself.
Gorgeous! Alaska has always been on my road-trip radar. I still dream of a Northern BC, Alaska and North West Territories trip. The landscape is so rugged and beautiful.
You lucky lady! Nice shot. Since my Alaska visit this summer I’ve become a salmon snob. I can’t help it.
Alaska is the ONLY state I have not been too. I wanted you to go their first, ah now I can plan my trip! Thanks for great post. Love your perspective.