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I'm going to India! Very soon!
... the rest of the people. In fact, I had no choice. There were so many people, and so little space in between them, that to even try to turn around and go the other way would have been asking for a nose bleed. And so I was carried out of the train station by a hive of hustling bodies.
I distinctly remember being on a bridge, seeing water below, and realizing that my feet were moving, but I was not moving them. And they felt no weight. I was hovering and ...
Squamish, BC to Pleasant Hill, CA
... the road in Astoria, Oregon - we had dinner at the Portway Tavern (the oldest tavern in the oldest town west of the Rockies) best fish and chips in Astoria is there claim to fame - well deserved - fun evening. The tavern was only 1-1/2 blocks from our hotel, which was great - didn't have to move the car and that was a good thing as when we returned from dinner the place was packed with boat trailers.
8/25 - Glad we stopped in Astoria as all ...
Prince Rupert, BC to Squamish, BC
... about 2 miles - no US customs. Hyder is the most southern town in Alaska that can be reached by road, it is almost a ghost town with a population of under 100 - it is so isolated from the rest of Alaska that it uses Canadian money, is on Pacific Standard Time, uses Stewart's area code, sends its children to Canadian schools, and calls the Mounties when there is trouble. You need to go through Hyder if you want to ...
Wrangell, Alaska II
... day - this makes the glacier extremely unstable and also one of the fastest moving tidal glaciers in Alaska. So after the show, we packed it in and headed up the channel and back to Petersburg to drop off the 2 families. At Petersburg a young woman headed to Wrangell got on the boat - we find out that it was her Grandpa that wa out in that boat - how weird is that. Her statement - Well he has always been known to do crazy things.
We ...
Denali National Park II
... one or the great one). During the Russian ownership of Alaska, the common name for the mountain was Bolshaya (great) Gora (mountain). After the sale of Alaska to the United Sates, it was decided to select a new name. The name was changed when William Dickey, a New Hampshire-born Seattlite who had been digging for gold in the sands of the Susitna River, wrote, after his return to the lower states, an account in the New York Sun ...
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