What Do I Know?

Before the fire trucks, in fact yesterday, Sunday, we were at the Anchorage Botanical Garden Spring Conference downtown at the Dena'ina ...

Alaskans are likely aware of William Seward more than the rest of the country.  After all, he was the man who arranged to buy Alaska from th...

As occasionally happens, this post began with one destination in mind and ended up somewhere else.  I'll make this Part I and do a secon...

Blackwater Railroad Company Seats were getting scarce 40 minutes before things were schedule to start.  Anchorage International Film Fes...

I don't know much about this film, but it takes place in Alaska and looks like it was filmed here.  [ Festival description says in Sewa...

After Seward, we camped at Ptarmigan Creek campground.  This used to be full of huge old spruce trees.  Then in the 80s for 15 to 20 years t...

Kilroy may have been here , but there are no signs that he ever was.   But I remember when Exit Glacier was here - the sign says it was in 1...

Here's the link to Unexpected Encounter at the Van Gilder Hotel .   With permission from TS @ Walkdo Walkiria World I first 'm...

We met Moshe at Congregation Beth Sholom Sunday where he gave a talk about how his community of Jews in Ethiopia walked for three weeks thro...

Monday we got up early and left Primrose to get to our kayaking spot. As much as I love being in a kayak, it's just so much easier, esp...

We had glorious weather all day. The young Russians (well one was Ukrainian) who cleaned the B&B Doug stayed in in Seward said that the...