Here's the rest of Ash and Mike's visit, in which we:
• Did yet more file transfers,
• Hiked down the Matanuska Rail Road Trail
• Defied gravity
• Visited Cassandra's family's farm
• Hiked around Independence Valley in Hatcher Pass
• Shopped around Anchorage
• Said goodbye

( ...continued from part one )

So, here's how my week with instantamazon and Mike went, in which we:
• dink around
• road trip to a fishwheel
• kill fish
• explore abandoned/rusted/burnt buildings
• hike around a glacier
• drive home.

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To post something not-so-depressing, I thought I'd write about what we did that was fun while my sister was here.

Lessee... we all saw Whale Rider and I suggest anyone who hasn't seen it and has access to it had better go see it. It wouldn't be nearly as wonderful on a little TV ( Read more... )

TRIVIAL STUFFGrandmother Laura and her hubby, Murphy, drove down from Alaska to Murphy's place and then came down here to deliver my dad's bike and fish to me. We went out to lunch someplace south of here on Miluwakie (can never spell the damned name). Walking up to the Pizzacato, we passed a cafe and who should be sitting in the window but the ( Read more... )