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Countdown - One Month to Go
We're finally doing it. Megan and I are going to Europe - the Eternal City of Rome. This blog will be a record of our adventures there and will focus on the food and drink we find each day in our adventures. The trip to Rome came about ...
Last Night at Home
We leave for the airport tomorrow at noon. Almost everything is done. I took the boys up to my parents' house in Ohio on Saturday. This is roughly a 700 mile drive, but there were no significant problems. I spent the night there ...
Two weeks to go
Okay, technically two and a half weeks - two weeks from right now I'll be on my way home from Ohio, a drive of a bit less than 800 miles. Friday the 19th is our 10th wedding anniversary, Saturday the 20th I'm driving to my parents' house to drop ...
What am I forgetting?
Although we still have a month to go before we leave the country, I want to make sure we're prepared. Still, I feel like I'm forgetting something important. We have the hotel and flight booked, I guess that's all that is really ...
Days in Rome without Being Pickpocketed: 2
Much to my dismay, I have not had time to update this since we got here. Right now we are on a break between sessions at the conference. The next session is on lung cancer, which I am sure will be more interesting than mucositis (which is not ...
College Fjord
On our way to College Fjord - not looking promising. Thick, low cloud all the way to water level - and it's raining. The weather improved marginally during the course of the day, but right when we reached the only really visible glaciers, we were ...
July 15 to 18
I am behind! Here it is Monday and I have not communicated our activities since Thursday's fishing trip. Here goes... Friday, July 15 - Today is a travel day, Homer to Seward, a distance of approximately 175 miles. The first half or more of the ...
Alaskan Ferry boarding
Woke up to fog and low lying clouds but the bay soon cleared and the sun came out. Linda and Randy volunteered to watch the laundry and Tom and I ran for snacks. We needed to be at the ferry station by 11 when the ship stopped ...
Fall Wrap Up
I escaped Cordova on October 28. It was a good fall, but it got cold fast. These pictures are from the middle of August and ...
The middle-ish part of the season
Here's some stuff from the middle of the summer. We had a good spike trip for eight days on Lake Elsner Easement which was some of the hardest work we've done all season. We hiked about 40 miles in five days with a minimum of fifty pounds on our backs ...
Cordova to Petersburg, and everything in between.
... I was looking through rain covered windows at my new home. First impressions say its beautiful, with a similar vibe to Cordova, but many differences as well. For starters lots more logging, not many Brown Bears, and smaller ...
Hubbord Glacier
Today we were at the Hubbord glacier for the second time since I have been on board. I was there 2 days ago but I was workin. Today I had it off and it was my lucky day cause the captain invited all the crew up tot the bridge to watch the glacier from ...
Up to date stuff
Here's the most recent things I've been up to. We helped put on a crosscut saw competition for Cordova's Centennial Fourth of July celebration which was fun but very busy. The crew spent a week at a cabin on a trail called Power Creek. We put a lot of ...
Relocated to Sacramento
... to Sacramento. We did make the move today. Since we needed to dump, we opted to stay at the Elks in Rancho Cordova. We are here to see the Sacramento clients; however, we are very eager to get to the Redwoods and put California in the ...
Showing Off
... he saw a whale's tail. The weather was warm, sunny, and we spent some time on the deck, sipping chosen alcoholic beverages. At Cordova, we disembarked and waited for our rental car to arrive. It turned out to be a minivan. We declined an offer of a ...
The Begining of the season
... . For those not in the loop, I got to AK in April and have been working on my third season on the trail crew here in Cordova. When I arrived, there was lots of snow on the ground but the weather was for the most part, cold and clear. It'd take a long ...
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