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Travels in Alaska-Quinn The Eskimo

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Alaska Inside Passage - Being There 🏔️ Alaska - Being There Inside Passage Adventures - The Great Land 🗺️ Alaska Inside Passage Route From Seattle through the pristine wilderness Southeast Alaska Click markers to explore ports of call • Interactive Inside Passage Map Being There "By the time I recognize this moment, This moment will be gone" Wow What a Summer - Alaska is a lot like pizza. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good; and like the Pizza Guy, Alaska always delivers. "But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on. Well all I got's Ooh ooh ooh ooh" ...

Juneau--The Wild Gospel of Nature

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Being There Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs. Nature's living mirror, however is water---whether still or in motion,The most beautiful landscapes are to the nth degree exponentially better with it.  See the World. Fly Pan Am in search of what you need and return home,North to the future, a land of promise, to find it.The geography of bliss is Alaska, and it's weather. A change in it is enough to reboot the world and ourselves.11,623 Eskimos Can't be Wrong.     Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops,each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffsand hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks,out of the sky-thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers .  John Muir As long as I live,I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood,storm, and the avalanche.I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens,...

Ketchikan-Path of Moist Resistance

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No such thing as good weather here only good clothing! I find myself in the perpetual company of people who love the rain and love to laugh about it. This may be my definition of true happiness. It's the locals,some emos, who just get wet,others, poets, who go dancing in the rain, hoping to be struck by lightning.  Chaplin liked to walk in the rain because nobody could see his tears. I don't cry, like the Charlie  because it's over. I smile, like the Big Kahuna because it happened. To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance. Carpe Diem means Fish of the day  8/2011 Last August in Ketchikan

Glacier National Park-Of The Mountains

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Marjorie Glacier is one of the most photogenic glaciers in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska. I had the good fortune to be there today None of these landscapes are ugly because they are natural and wild!  I learn about geography by traveling by cruise ship; geology, the day after a  huge event-- They  take place   every day somewhere around the planet--- earthquakes, hurricanes, even glaciers move.  When I attempt  to pick out anything by itself in Alaska , I find it connected to everything else in the Universe, yet I feel my smallness because of its vastness. The wilderness is therapy: Only by going alone in silence, without baggage and buffets,could I  truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other traveling, including on this ship, is Karaoke traveling-a cheap imitation. But it's still worth doing. I can hear the ice sheet-music of the glacier calving and  the music of the bay  written in ice river lines. .. K...

Skagway-After The Goldrush

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Heavy Traffic Without The Road Rage Neil Young sang a song a song in the 70's  about  Mother Nature abandoning  the pillaged planet, and going in search of a new beginning ("silver seed"). T he Caribbean  is now off-season,  tourists board cruiseships to find a new place to colonize,(or inhabit for 8 hours) called Alaska. Rust never sleeps.

Juneau-Enlightened Land

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I can't English this right now-Speechless A marvel of nature which lies 2,000 feet above historic downtown Juneau, the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield is the fifth largest icefield in North America. Extending from Taku Inlet to Skagway, the icefield is the birthing ground of 38 major glaciers, including Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier. The icefield is estimated to be around 3,000 years old, but it is in a constant state of renewal and retreat depending on each year's dosage of snow.  When trying to describe the initial human response to seeing and experiencing the Juneau Icefield, Capt. Eugene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon, recalled his pre-lunar training experience near Juneau. Apparently NASA chose the icefield as one of the places on Earth that "captured the emotional sensations that one might encounter while walking on the moon." The expansive views, the stark beauty, and the harshness of the ice and rock would have you agreeing with them.   .tr...

Juneau-Enlightened Land

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I can't English this right now-Speechless A marvel of nature which lies 2,000 feet above historic downtown Juneau, the 1,500-square-mile Juneau Icefield is the fifth largest icefield in North America. Extending from Taku Inlet to Skagway, the icefield is the birthing ground of 38 major glaciers, including Juneau's Mendenhall Glacier. The icefield is estimated to be around 3,000 years old, but it is in a constant state of renewal and retreat depending on each year's dosage of snow.  When trying to describe the initial human response to seeing and experiencing the Juneau Icefield, Capt. Eugene Cernan, the last astronaut to walk on the moon, recalled his pre-lunar training experience near Juneau. Apparently NASA chose the icefield as one of the places on Earth that "captured the emotional sensations that one might encounter while walking on the moon." The expansive views, the stark beauty, and the harshness of the ice and rock would have you agreeing with them...

I Myth You

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Sea Years · Departure / Initiation / Return The Sea That Made Me An accidental sailor's hero's journey—from purchasing freedom by the weekend to discovering that a life can be redesigned from first principles. Begin the journey See full image ↗ The argument Departure Initiation First principles The fleet Return This is not a list of ships. It is a chain of cause and effect: one decision created motion; motion created distance; distance created perspective; perspective changed the design of a life. The old story said that growing up meant settling down, that freedom was something purchased in weekends and two-week vacations, and that age was an expiration date stamped on the body. I believed enough of that story to feel its limits. The sea did not rescue me with scenery. It confronted me with a better operating system. On a shi...

Seattle-The Flannel Manner

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Give me you pale, your pasty and your King-Crab-Salmon-lacking  masses- at  Princess Cruises . After Monday and Tuesday, all that's left in the Pacific Northwest  is W T F, eh?  From the excessively hot weather in NYC, I saw a heat wave, and now I am waving back, here in the cool crispy air.Clothes are vintage, bohemian, and flannel hipster.  Although, I have embraced my baldness without compromise,  The Drudge Rule ( Bald men who constantly wear hats to hide baldness) is in effect.   I lost my  Marmot   Precip(itation)  hat in transit- Now more tan lines but  Now I'm  gonna rust! until I get to a store.   Male Pattern Madness! Looking forward to a great season up here in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, with or without wearing a baseball cap, although I seldom took it off in  the   2011 season: Victoria, B.C -Open Sources Vancouver - Wonderful Tonight If You See A Fork In The Road-Take It. All On The ...

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