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Feels good doesn't it?  Now you have 3 things to do before you become a "true" alaskan. I have one left  You need to have sex with a grizzly? Yep! Not going to comment on what I had to shoot.... Isn't that how the joke goes?
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I started out 8 nights ago from the desert East of San Diego, cut into Nevada, up through the other usual suspects until crossing the canadian boarder at Sweetgrass MT. From there to Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson, Watson Lake, Whitehorse, Tok, and then that amazing drive down to Anchorage.
Too many great scenes to list and I also had to tap the brakes for deer, buffalo, goats, moose, sheep, elk, and black bear (and not just a few.!)
Just an Amazing adventure.!!!
Only hitch came as I pulled in for gas in MT. As I tried to turn the wheel, I lost power steering and heard a "pop" under the hood. Got out and lifted the hood to see I had thrown the water pump pulley off the spline. I called 3 shops locally. One didn't answer, the second was busy for days, the 3rd was 200 yards down the road and couldn't get a part for their current customer... AAA gave me a tow, and within an hour I was back on the road.! Amazing.!
I'll be having dinner with my new boss tomorrow night and am currently moving my stuff in my new place here in Anch.
I'm so grateful.
Welcome to Alaska! Sounds like you had a great road trip (less the power steering issue).
That's ok, I'll ass shoot a dink.
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That’s the way I always heard it!
If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
--Pat Parelli
American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
--ironbender
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That’s the way I always heard it! Haha, I thought so! I have been over the yukon, does that count at least a little?
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Feels good doesn't it? Now you have 3 things to do before you become a "true" alaskan. I have one left Okay Hank, Besides doin the bear, what are the other 2 requirements.?
"I'd rather have an Army of Asses led by a Lion, than an Army of Lions led by an Ass." (George Washington)
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I started out 8 nights ago from the desert East of San Diego, cut into Nevada, up through the other usual suspects until crossing the canadian boarder at Sweetgrass MT. From there to Edmonton, Grande Prairie, Dawson Creek, Fort Nelson, Watson Lake, Whitehorse, Tok, and then that amazing drive down to Anchorage.
Too many great scenes to list and I also had to tap the brakes for deer, buffalo, goats, moose, sheep, elk, and black bear (and not just a few.!)
Just an Amazing adventure.!!!
Only hitch came as I pulled in for gas in MT. As I tried to turn the wheel, I lost power steering and heard a "pop" under the hood. Got out and lifted the hood to see I had thrown the water pump pulley off the spline. I called 3 shops locally. One didn't answer, the second was busy for days, the 3rd was 200 yards down the road and couldn't get a part for their current customer... AAA gave me a tow, and within an hour I was back on the road.! Amazing.!
I'll be having dinner with my new boss tomorrow night and am currently moving my stuff in my new place here in Anch.
I'm so grateful.
Welcome to Alaska! Sounds like you had a great road trip (less the power steering issue). Many, many thanks. Even the power steering/water pump issue was a good experience.
"I'd rather have an Army of Asses led by a Lion, than an Army of Lions led by an Ass." (George Washington)
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Damn - another Anchorite.... . I hate tourist/fishing driving season here on the Kenai... friggen road was a madhouse today. Road Whales everywhere. I should have taken mine to town, just to fit in.... . Got cut off to the squealing tires part by a Minnie Winnie lane changer (no signal) with Florida plates. And I was driving my nothing-to-lose junker! Saw two other such ahead of me ... No paint touched, tho I did see an after-the-fact what appeared to be a near head-on (side panels crushed on motor home and car, pointed opposite directions- just missed it by a minute or 3) yesterday when I was going down to retrieve my set-net personal use gear off the Kasilof muckflats. And the traffic is waxing.... Some people have questioned my practice of concentrating entirely on driving while driving, sans ANY cell phone use, and often radio/conversation? Welcome to Alaska, .358 - I didn't mean you. Well, maybe. I'd invite you to drop in down here, but I'm shortly leaving the state for a couple months to places less crowded on the road system. Like, Montana. Might help if we had more than one road up here.....
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Las,
I've always appreciated your posts. I watched and read of your son's travels up here weeks ago, and from that thread I mapped out where, and where not, to buy gas.
The riff-raff on the road is an issue, I concurr. I had thought that there should be a toll at the boarder into Alaska that would be paid by non residents as they entered the state. I feel the same about there being a non resident sales tax for the same reasons.
Yes, I am in Anchorage, we'll my body is. My heart is in the bush. One step at a time, I say. I have a good job serving a company here with my carpentry skills, and I have a humble but comfortable little apartment in the lower level of a nice duplex (no black out curtains needed). It'll do for now.... I mean, after all, I'm in ALASKA.!!!
"I'd rather have an Army of Asses led by a Lion, than an Army of Lions led by an Ass." (George Washington)
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That's the atitude! Hey, my garage is still under construction.....
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The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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Las,
I've always appreciated your posts. I watched and read of your son's travels up here weeks ago, and from that thread I mapped out where, and where not, to buy gas.
The riff-raff on the road is an issue, I concurr. I had thought that there should be a toll at the boarder into Alaska that would be paid by non residents as they entered the state. I feel the same about there being a non resident sales tax for the same reasons.
Yes, I am in Anchorage, we'll my body is. My heart is in the bush. One step at a time, I say. I have a good job serving a company here with my carpentry skills, and I have a humble but comfortable little apartment in the lower level of a nice duplex (no black out curtains needed). It'll do for now.... I mean, after all, I'm in ALASKA.!!!
More precisely I think you are CLOSE to Alaska . LOL. Dang close
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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Las,
I've always appreciated your posts. I watched and read of your son's travels up here weeks ago, and from that thread I mapped out where, and where not, to buy gas.
The riff-raff on the road is an issue, I concurr. I had thought that there should be a toll at the boarder into Alaska that would be paid by non residents as they entered the state. I feel the same about there being a non resident sales tax for the same reasons.
Yes, I am in Anchorage, we'll my body is. My heart is in the bush. One step at a time, I say. I have a good job serving a company here with my carpentry skills, and I have a humble but comfortable little apartment in the lower level of a nice duplex (no black out curtains needed). It'll do for now.... I mean, after all, I'm in ALASKA.!!!
More precisely I think you are CLOSE to Alaska . LOL. Dang close Closer than you!
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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I wish you the best! My wife and I are considering Alaska when I get out of school (Nursing) in a couple of years! We will both be RNs and some friends that have worked there say they need RNs bad and the pay is good.
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