Royal Suite Lodge Anchorage

We will post trip information here as soon as it starts. For 2010, we will continue planning the project and look for Sponsors that are willing to invest and support the Project. All indications in that regard is ...

... traveling. In stores, people look you in the eye like maybe they know you from somewhere. Drivers are rude, like anywhere, but not always. Anchorage citizens are friendlier, freer, feistier. You can't tell who has the money.No one cares who your daddy is. Well, maybe that's changing a bit. But since we became a state in 1959, where's the status? "Hey my family has been in Alaska since 1959?" Don't think so. Some people are starting to show their money. There is a big ...

... back slowly, never look at him in the face and never run; if you did, you would become a potential prey! I was never confronted with such a situation even though I saw a great number of grizzlies fishing in the lakes and in Brooks River.

You need to take the local bus and travel along the 37-kilometre dirt road to reach the Valley of the Ten Thousand Smokes. The landscape is gorgeous. In September ...

... that, with Wendell’s absence, she grieved herself to death. Anyway, son-in-law Jerry noticed an odor and found her under the workbench in Wendell’s shop. He placed her in a shallow grave at the back of the property and covered the spot with rocks. Digging a hole in our south Texas land is a daunting task; it is very rocky. Wendell had recommended to Jerry that if she died while we were away, the buzzards need to eat too, “pitch the ...

We were in the air by 5 pm and was scheduled for a 10 hr flight. This flight was full so everyone was sitting close together. Janet had a lady lay down and prop her bare feet on her lap. Whitney had a stranger lay her head on her shoulder as the stranger slept. Someone picked their nose and wiped it on the seat of one of the students and one man kept spitting on the floor right beside a student. Needless to say we could not wait for this flight to end ...

... for his 2 weeks off. He also brings his 2 year old daughter for a visit. A fussy 2 year old is not the best thing for me right now! To make matters better, he takes the toddler to the doctor and finds out the rash his ex-girlfriend was told was excema is really scabies and he has it too. Scabies? Am I supposed to do something here? I called OB triage at the hospital to find ...

... trip ahead. But not before driving 40 miles away to find cheese cake and carrot cake. On the day we were about to leave to drive north, a storm rolled in and sent down tornadoes. NO WAY! The air raid sirens went off and Jason ran outside with the camera. Wouldn't THAT be irony? We missed a volcano in South America, a cyclone and flooding in Australia, bombs in Bali, an earthquake in Sumatra, a cyclone in Myanmar, a train derailment and the earthquake in China as well as many ...

On our last day, back in Anchorage, we took a tour around the city,
rented a car and drove along the seward scenic hwy, visiting the Alaska
Wildlife Conservation Center. This is a wildlife refuge for the animals
native to alaska that for one reason or another cannot be returned to
the wild, so they make this their home. I have to say this ...

... ground running. Starting to warm up already as we move down to Canada - even have sunburn on my face. Flight out from Heathrow went via Chicago where I stopped for a transfer. Freak thunderstorms in the windy city meant that all planes were grounded for 5 hours. Amazing storms to watch out of the window. Finally flew in to Anchorage at midnight on Friday (the sun was still shining through the plane windows at 11pm!). 20 hours of daylight per day in Alaska at the moment which makes ...