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I have been to Alaska hunting and on couple of wildfires. Between the black flys and mosquitos, I nearly went crazy. I will never go back again,
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I have been to Alaska hunting and on couple of wildfires. Between the black flys and mosquitos, I nearly went crazy. I will never go back again, Don't forget the gnats.
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You musta covered ever road in the state 3 or 4 times. We stayed near Palmer most of the time with overnights to Homer and Fairbanks and East to Glennallen. We literally ran out of new places to go within a couple hours of our base, we did go to Anchorage weekly for a Costco run and a few redundant trips. Many trips to Hatcher Pass and local hiking areas. Dude, with almost 400 million acres in Alaska and you ran out of places to go ? WTF man ? .... get off the road system , there is so much more out there than the frkn blacktop Bob's a good fella and knows all of that. Read his other posts above this one. . .
"You've been here longer than the State of Alaska is old!"
*** my Grandaughters
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Alot are nieve about AK. I had my sister in law saying "over" after every sentence when she would call us. I told her we no phones and it was all over radio. I had a riot with that one. I need "borrow" that one! Permission please, LoL
"You've been here longer than the State of Alaska is old!"
*** my Grandaughters
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Alot are nieve about AK. I had my sister in law saying "over" after every sentence when she would call us. I told her we no phones and it was all over radio. I had a riot with that one. I need "borrow" that one! Permission please, LoL My wife would get pissed when I would do that to her sister...but she never stopped me or told her sister You gotta try it.
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I have been to Alaska hunting and on couple of wildfires. Between the black flys and mosquitos, I nearly went crazy. I will never go back again, Don't forget the gnats. aww c'mon man, the bugs are a lot of fun with the bug zappin tennis racket thingie !
"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants".
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I have been to Alaska hunting and on couple of wildfires. Between the black flys and mosquitos, I nearly went crazy. I will never go back again, Don't forget the gnats. aww c'mon man, the bugs are a lot of fun with the bug zappin tennis racket thingie ! You need 3 guys with those things to protect you when butchering an animal...lol
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Alot are nieve about AK. I had my sister in law saying "over" after every sentence when she would call us. I told her we no phones and it was all over radio. I had a riot with that one. I need "borrow" that one! Permission please, LoL My wife would get pissed when I would do that to her sister...but she never stopped me or told her sister You gotta try it. Plan to! Gonna record it too 
"You've been here longer than the State of Alaska is old!"
*** my Grandaughters
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Real Alaskan men sport big oosics? FACT !!! And bigger than any Texan's We could cut 'em in half and make Texan's 3rd largest.
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
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I have been to Alaska hunting and on couple of wildfires. Between the black flys and mosquitos, I nearly went crazy. I will never go back again, We need more like you.
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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There used to be a saying among the women looking for a man:
The odds are good but the goods are odd.
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6 months of dark, 6 of light.
True if you average. Also true at the equator and all points between.
When I was in gunsmithing school in Denver, the guy next table over was telling someone that his sister lived in Anchorage and had polar bears in her yard on occasion. I didn't know what was going on so I kept my mouth shut until his visitor left, then told him the only polar bear within 500 miles or more was in the Anchorage zoo.
Boy, did he get a sour look. I took that to mean he had believed what he'd just spouted.
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My wife was just in the Naples/Ft. Meyers, FL area to visit her sister 2 weeks ago. Her sister loves to shop so they went to the mall. My wife was checking out in a store and the cashier said she had to see her DL. When she saw my wife’s AK DL, the girl asked her how far south of FL that AK was. When my wife told her we are way north of you and the map of AK being next to Hawaii off the coast of CA was not correct the girl was dumbfounded. Sad to say, since living here and traveling to the lesser 48 several times, I’ve been asked that question a few times myself.
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My wife was just in the Naples/Ft. Meyers, FL area to visit her sister 2 weeks ago. Her sister loves to shop so they went to the mall. My wife was checking out in a store and the cashier said she had to see her DL. When she saw my wife’s AK DL, the girl asked her how far south of FL that AK was. When my wife told her we are way north of you and the map of AK being next to Hawaii off the coast of CA was not correct the girl was dumbfounded. Sad to say, since living here and traveling to the lesser 48 several times, I’ve been asked that question a few times myself. Never thought of that stupidity. But its what public education and no parenting is putting out these days I guess.
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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Ironbender was up here wit me at the same time ...remember 3 TV broadcast stations ..ALL on the same channel... and it was a long distance ca.ll from fbks ft Wright...to North pole ...and they rite beside each other ... and went thru a satellite to do it ...lol lag time was Un real !
I work harder than a ugly stripper....
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Remember getting the superbowel 4 weeks later when the tape arrived?
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If you take the time it takes, it takes less time.
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American by birth; Alaskan by choice.
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Remember getting the superbowel 4 weeks later when the tape arrived?
lol That gave us more time to bet in the football pools. I think most of you remember RATNET.....rural alaska tv network.
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Know more than a few guys with this problem ....... ... ![[Linked Image from imagizer.imageshack.com]](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/6258/Da2xvf.jpg)
"The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants".
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Remember getting the superbowel 4 weeks later when the tape arrived?
lol Wow! Superbowel, I guess you crap a lot then. 😅
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