A Travelogue and (occasional) Sketchblog
As of the clock now, I’ll be beginning my journey to China in about… 15 hours or so. That is, of course, if you don’t count from when I left Connecticut as the “beginning.” Either way, my flight leaves around 7:30 AM tomorrow.
To distract me the act of pulling myself away from Kelly for the [...]
5.x miles in, an overnight, then 5.x miles out – in all, 11 – 12 miles hiked (with 50 lbs of crap on our backs).
Then a bonfire cookout on a rocky riverbed.
I promise, pictures soon… errands to run tomorrow, packing; flight Monday morning.
Today:
Backpacking!
Soon (Sunday at the soonest, I think):
Zoo and Backpacking pictures! Random Miscellany!
Before I get around to writing about the Anchorage Zoo, I need to share with you all the events of the last five hours.
Shortly after breakfast, around 11 or so, I started the process that would ultimately consolidate the bulk of my federal loans into a single, comprehensive payment under the Department of Education – [...]
The pictures that follow barely give due justice to the jaw-dropping beauty of Denali, or of outside-of-Anchorage Alaska in general. These little pictures can do little to convey the perception-shattering sense of scale of these real mountains – mountains that make Alaskans call Colorado “flat” and instinctively refer to the New England Appalacians as “speedbumps.”
It [...]
We’re a bit busy packing and preparing for our RV trip up to Denali, so I can’t really make too much of a post (though I do have some pictures from my trip to the Zoo yesterday – I’ve got connections to let me see the wolves up close). However, I did more or less [...]
I’m sitting here quietly, with Will taking a nap and everyone else out, trying to get my Wacom groove back when the incessant noise of screaming birds invades my mental space. They must have been going on for a while, but these birds didn’t really register on my conscious until I saw one of them [...]
My Own Personal Budget Crisis
Ugh – my immunizations are going to run me, at the very least, $400 bucks. Insurance might cover it, if I’m lucky, but it’s too complicated to tell at this point. Alaska is simultaneously in-network and out-of-network, somehow, like they’re integrated with Washington State or somesuch. Basically, neither Connecticut nor Alaska [...]
Excuse the strange dialogue… my camera’s video function is… frustrating, at times.
(Not to be confused with Part I)
The earlier half of yesterday occurred in an odd blur. I woke up later than usual and came down to breakfast in an odd haze. I vaguely remember Kelly telling me the Plan for the day, and I vaguely remembering nodding idly in consonance. Then I remember being told to take a series of left [...]