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Living Alaska — My Prologue Moving to Alaska

Arrival in Alaska on the M.V. Matanuska — Perseverance, Journey to Alaska Prologue July 9th, 2021, 4:29 am I woke up in the Solarium, the M.V. Matanuska, I slept 3 hours. It was cold outside my sleeping bag. I peeked one eye open and then the other, 35 people lay around me in disarray. It mirrored the remains…

Life

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Living Alaska — My Prologue Moving to Alaska
Living Alaska — My Prologue Moving to Alaska
Life

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Living Alaska — About Me

Leaving Everything Behind — I Started In On June 11th, 2021, I got on my bicycle at 4am in San Francisco, California and rode north across the Golden Gate Bridge. My intended destination was Alaska, to see my 50th State. I stopped heading north when I got to the Canadian Border. Due to Covid19…

Alaska

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Living Alaska — About Me
Living Alaska — About Me
Alaska

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ILLUMINATION

·Sep 23

Living Alaska — Are You Looking for a Cure to Loneliness?

A Short-Term Cure for Loneliness — I sat perched on the stern of my ship and investigated the vast open space. I was surrounded by beauty, a seascape, desolate rolling green hills, and snow-capped mountains. Welcome to the Aleutians, a desolate group of Islands forming the eastern portion of the Gulf of Alaska. It would be…

Lonliness

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Living Alaska — Are You Looking for a Cure to Loneliness?
Living Alaska — Are You Looking for a Cure to Loneliness?
Lonliness

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·Sep 22

Living Alaska — Have You Seen the Northern Lights?

Zero Degrees North at the 59th Parallel — Last night, we were heading zero degrees north, based on a gyro, at the 59th parallel. Traveling zero degrees north, we headed directly into the Northern Lights. Watching a dazzling display produced by Mother Nature in the ocean was awe-inspiring. It made me appreciate the subtleties of nature, chemistry, and…

Aroura Borealis

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Living Alaska — Have You Seen the Northern Lights?
Living Alaska — Have You Seen the Northern Lights?
Aroura Borealis

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·Sep 21

Living Alaska — Sailing in Rough Weather

What is it Like at Sea in 97 mph Winds? — Hurricane-force winds start at 74 mph. Sustained winds over 96 mph define a category two hurricane. You can learn much about life by sailing a ship through hurricane-force winds. Our ship registers our current wind speed, our maximum wind speed, and our true wind speed. True wind speed is defined…

Sea

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Living Alaska — Sailing in Rough Weather
Living Alaska — Sailing in Rough Weather
Sea

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·Sep 18

Living Alaska — Working at Sea

Do You Want to Know What Working at Sea is Like? — Today was an average day for me. I work on a ferry boat in Alaska. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work at sea? When I was a kid, I heard about kids running off to join the Circus. …

Work

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Living Alaska — Working at Sea
Living Alaska — Working at Sea
Work

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·Sep 17

Living Alaska — A Trip to Dutch Harbor, Alaska

Looking for an Adventure? — It was my first time seeing the Aleutian Island Chain. I traveled several hundred miles from Homer, Alaska, to Kodiak. I had been to Kodiak, but not farther down the chain. I am working on a different ship traveling through the open ocean to Dutch Harbor this time. On our…

Writers Life

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Living Alaska — A Trip to Dutch Harbor, Alaska
Living Alaska — A Trip to Dutch Harbor, Alaska
Writers Life

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·Sep 8

Castles in the Sand

The Imagination Equation — It was a monster’s castle, so big and beautiful from a distance. The formation spurned the imagination. I looked again as we approached my Castle in the Sand, which transformed into a pile of rocks. My vivid imagination told me a story. It was a huge castle inhabited by giants…

Writer

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Castles in the Sand
Castles in the Sand
Writer

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·Sep 7

The Brains Off Switch

Bargain Basement Brain Switches on Sale — Do you ever wish you had an off switch for your brain? When it is overloaded, too sensitive, or too tired to process more, you could flip a switch and turn it all off. Think of the joy of not thinking, overthinking, or reprocessing old memories. Last night, I had…

Sleep

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The Brains Off Switch
The Brains Off Switch
Sleep

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·Sep 5

Living Alaska — A Walk through Homer, Alaska

The Solo Traveler Experience — I arrived in Homer, Alaska via a puddle jumper airplane late this afternoon. After a full day of travel, with stops at six different airports, I arrived at my destination. Taking a cab to the hotel and ordering room service would have been easy. Most people would be tired and…

Homer

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Living Alaska — A Walk through Homer, Alaska
Living Alaska — A Walk through Homer, Alaska
Homer

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