Sunday, May 30, 2004
I'm home. After 3 trips to Alaska & a trip to NY, NY within the last 3.5 weeks, I wish I could say I had adventures as wonderful as Tim's to post, although I did manage to climb to the highest point of the company aircraft hangar, which is several stories high. (Ok, I used the little narrow ladders inside that led to the trap door. No one wanted to rope up). The view from that Anchorage vantage point were quite nice, and it was windy enough for me to almost pretend that I was on a great adventure of sorts... (This was actually company business. I don't do such things just for fun.)
Speaking of aircraft & such, Tim, I hope your airline travels were somewhat pleasant?
Patrick & I travelled to Kenai Peninsula and took a glacier tour to those out-of-reach fjords and glaciers in Kenai National Park. The wildlife, from several different kinds of whales to mountain goats to black & grizzly bears and puffins, bald eagles, etc, remind you how lovely nature is if we just leave it the heck alone.
Alyeska Ski Resort was truly stunning in its beauty and appears to have good skiing (folks are still skiing now even though the bottom of the hill is a bit patchy). We hiked around a bit. Highly recommended to the skiers in the group looking for a new place to ski this winter.
Otherwise, we just went here & there and found pretty places that the locals try to keep to themselves. Took some photos, but since I knew I'd be back, I made a concerted effort not live this trip through a lens. (I tend to live life through a lens.) So I brought over 45 rolls of film for a 5 day vacation, and we shot 3 (and Patrick shot 2 of them). Ok, and the weather was lousy, really foggy & rainy, so there wasn't a lot to shoot, landscape-wise. Otherwise, my resolution would have gone right out the window, as it does almost every other time I make it! :)
As for the other trips, I saw the insides of airports, hotel rooms, cabs, office buildings...standard business travel landscape.
Speaking of aircraft & such, Tim, I hope your airline travels were somewhat pleasant?
Patrick & I travelled to Kenai Peninsula and took a glacier tour to those out-of-reach fjords and glaciers in Kenai National Park. The wildlife, from several different kinds of whales to mountain goats to black & grizzly bears and puffins, bald eagles, etc, remind you how lovely nature is if we just leave it the heck alone.
Alyeska Ski Resort was truly stunning in its beauty and appears to have good skiing (folks are still skiing now even though the bottom of the hill is a bit patchy). We hiked around a bit. Highly recommended to the skiers in the group looking for a new place to ski this winter.
Otherwise, we just went here & there and found pretty places that the locals try to keep to themselves. Took some photos, but since I knew I'd be back, I made a concerted effort not live this trip through a lens. (I tend to live life through a lens.) So I brought over 45 rolls of film for a 5 day vacation, and we shot 3 (and Patrick shot 2 of them). Ok, and the weather was lousy, really foggy & rainy, so there wasn't a lot to shoot, landscape-wise. Otherwise, my resolution would have gone right out the window, as it does almost every other time I make it! :)
As for the other trips, I saw the insides of airports, hotel rooms, cabs, office buildings...standard business travel landscape.
