Backstage graffiti at the Anchorage PAC

The creepy tunnel to Whittier, AK

It's a one-way tunnel seemingly hewn out of the living rock with human thighbones. Narrow, arched, with inlaid streetcar-like rails and little clearance or lighting. Terrifyingly equipped with alarmingly frequent 'safe houses' in case a quake  brings the mountain down on your head. Mom, you would hate it.

Leaving Anchorage in search of the Portage Glacier.

Fat, cold, old, and onstage

Anchorage Performing Arts Center. I begin to grow bear-like...

Downtown Anchorage

Snowing so hard they closed the local gov't. Record Alaskan winter. And we were here.

Best Western Kodiak

On one of Kodiak's black sand beaches

Naturally you can't see the the black, the sand, or the beach. Oops.

Kodiak Island, AK

We're almost bored by Alaska's relentless natural beauty. Almost.

Couple of pictures I missed....

Here I am in front of the blue ice of the Mendenhall Glacier outside Juneau, and this is us chasing a blurry young moose through the mountains outside of Fairbanks on our aurora expedition. We saw the barest minimum of activity that will allow us to legally claim to have seen the Northern Lights, but we did get to chase a moose. Also, a better snowshoeing picture.

FYI: our car would not start the next day in Fairbanks. If that had happened the night before, I doubt we would have survived being 10 miles from nowhere in -50 degrees.  Whew!

Jon and I snowshoeing above Homer

My face is blurred out 'cause I'm not sure I wish to be seen with Jon.

Homer, Alaska

Where the trees are festooned with bald eagles.

Two things I dig about Fairbanks' airport...

A) - They have a null gate, and...

B) - Their awesome -50° de-icing procedure

The fine snow filling the air...

...was only seconds before a cup of near-boiling water. It turns instantly to snow. Doesn't work with cooler water, oddly. Dad probably knows why, but I don't. One of Fairbank's many unique entertainments.

Welcome to Fairbanks

Just leaving Fairbanks airport

It's -33°…

Same view after 10am sunrise. Love this place.

View from room 718, the Goldbelt Inn, Juneau, AK

Snowing, of course.

Juneau

Taking off from Petersburg for Juneau

Hard to tell, but there's a snow storm. Fun!

On the radio on KFSK, Petersburg, AK

Petersburg, AK

Small fishing town south of Juneau. In the little dive where we ate delicious garlic burgers, they were watching 'Alaska State Troopers.' In Alaska. Sweet.

Anchorage

About what you'd expect...

Ft. Lauderdale, Broward Center for the Arts

Howard attempts to get the Three Little Wives of Newt to sing on key.

I get this from you, Dad

It seems I always move in the snow. All going well, despite precipitation. And, inexplicably, camera stopped taking sepia-tone prints. Whee!

When did you make this, Mom?

Pool bag w/ initials...circa...1969 maybe?