Off the Rails in Alaska

Join me on a journey through my adventurous summer in Alaska – where work meets wilderness and every day is a wild ride!

  • Tuesday Motor Coach

    I have to remember to delineate between bus and motor coach. We take a motor coach. The difference between the two being that the motor coach has a bathroom onboard. That I will never use. I arrive at the rail yard for the 9:45am motor coach. Derek is off today so I am heading up… Read more

  • When in America…

    Sunday up to Denali was pretty uneventful. Relaxed passengers. Very nice! The passengers were a fun group. Drinking cocktails and being friendly. The trip to Talkeetna took five hours. Monday was a different story. It started out a good day. We had a group of passengers that were on the leg of their tour whereas… Read more

  • I started making friendship bracelets about two years ago. It started out with the Taylor Swift concert, which i unfortunately didn’t attend. I saw the theater version instead. As seasons changed I’d make appropriately colored bracelets. I gave them away to friends and people at the gym I worked at. Last summer I brought up… Read more