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!

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  • Training Begins

    We started training today. We meet at the library at 8am. There are friendly, repeat faces from last year and it’s fun to chat about everyone’s winter adventures. There are a small handful of people who don’t take the time to chat with us. I’m bothered by this as I try to make eye contact Read more

  • Costco

    Today we needed to get the apartment stocked up with food and paper goods. We first went to Fred Meyer. I do love Fred Meyer. It’s under the King Sooper’s name. Which is what we have in Denver. The difference being Fred Meyer has clothing and household goods. Like Walmart but better. We spent longer Read more

  • Last summer we did not have a car up here. Instead we used Uber and Lyft to get everywhere. To get a feel for that, one has to remember that it rains often here. So the cars get dirty and dusty. Many of the Uber and Lyft vehicles we rode in had heavy plastic on Read more