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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  • Pain

    The days continue to run together. The shifts are long but pass quickly. When a day off comes around, I’m often too tired to do anything productive. The common cold has been passed around the train kids and I’ve caught this. It has lingered for a couple weeks. My shifts are anywhere from 10-16 hours. Read more

  • Into the Wild

    One of my favorite moments of being up here in Alaska is being able to place visuals to one of my favorite books. “Into the Wild”, by Jon Krakauer, is the story of Chris McCandless leaving society and hiking various parts of the US. The place he most wanted to go was Alaska. And he Read more

  • Dirty DEX

    After a couple days off, we catch the bus Friday morning at 9:45am. We will bus up to Denali, stay overnight and work the southbound train to the Whittier Port on Saturday. Sunday, we will take a 4:45am bus to the port where we will take passengers up to Denali. The route is called the Read more