Cordova, United States Travel Blogs

Countdown - One Month to Go
May 25, 2009

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
Jun 23, 2009

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
Jun 7, 2009

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 off ...

What am I forgetting?
May 25, 2009

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 important.  ...

Days in Rome without Being Pickpocketed: 2
Jun 26, 2009

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 ...

Fall Wrap Up
Sep 27, 2008 (68 photos)

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 onward. 

The middle-ish part of the season
Jul 20, 2008 (66 photos)

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.
Apr 27, 2008 (10 photos)

... 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 mountains.  ...

Up to date stuff
Jul 20, 2008 (53 photos)

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 ...

Showing Off
May 27, 2008 (48 photos)

... 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
Jul 20, 2008 (35 photos)

... . 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 ...