Chapter 1: New Home, Bears and Girl Arriving in an airport at 1:00am with twenty dollars in one's pocket is never an ideal way to start an adventure. I grabbed my guitar, my over-size backpack and my camera from the baggage claim and looked around, exhausted and a bit overwhelmed. My objective was simple, a dark corner to sleep off my hang-over and wait for the morning. My thoughts were a fumbling mess of excitement, exhaustion and not so pointed anticipation. I stepped outside to collect myself, my luggage in tow. The air was crisp, the Chugach Mountains still snow covered. [View Full Entry]

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Hi all, May 28, 2007 It’s time. I have a date with youth hostels, two week old underwear, over-crowded buses and more than twenty some odd flights. I have a sneaking suspicion that I will be the butt of countless jokes over the next year. Yes, believe it or not, I’m actually thrilled to be the foreign guy with too many questions and no common-sense. My life is about to become bizarrely maniacal with a sprinkle of absurdity on top. In two days, I leave for the first leg of a centripetal trip. It’s a good thing too. If I [View Full Entry]

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James: It's like he said: Marvelous things will happen. Glowworm: Did he say, "Marvelous pigs in satin"? Grasshopper: No, dear lady. [He takes out a megaphone and speaks through it] Grasshopper: Marvelous things will happen. [to James] Grasshopper: Poor Glowworm, she's a little deaf. Earthworm: I, on the other hand, have exquisite hearing. Centipede: Oh, yeah? Well, listen to this... [He spits into his many hands and grabs the megaphone and yells into it] Centipede: LET'S GET OUTTA HERE! Like James, my Giant Peach has been growing in the backyard a long [View Full Entry]

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Resurrection Pass September 17th 2006 Seven years of bears experience. Every day- guiding countless tourists amongst some of the biggest predators on Earth today. I’ve had my close moments but nothing that made me fear for my life. I guess everyone gets complacent, even those of us who promise out of pure determination to never take the bruins of the north for granite. That would just be stupid. Resurrection Pass: a beautiful trail that treks up a mountain range, crosses two rivers and offers amazing biodiversity with varying ecosystem changes from tundra to rainforest, from taiga [View Full Entry]

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http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_36E.html Finally after 7 years of promises to myself... I guess sometimes you just have to actually do something and stop watching time pass. I'm getting old. The ticket that I'm buying is the most exciting and, to be frank, the most frightening thing I have ever done. Here is the flights, in order. Of coarse, from each place comes even more traveling by crowded buses, boats and trains! Anchorage, Alaska Denver, Colorado San Francisco, California Taipei, Taiwan Bangkok, Thailand Delhi, Ind [View Full Entry]

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I decided to buy a lens that took my back to the VERY basics... before aperture or focus was a real option. Here's the results: [View Full Entry]

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Late August in Alaska- Everything is starting to change and die. It sounds like a horrible but not the way I look at it. "Death is the beginning of life". Religions are based upon the concept. Ecological order is defined by it. Soon all the salmon will have passed their seed and died; the blood sucking mosquitos are keeping their species going by their dormant eggs; the bears are beginning to look for a place to sleep for seven months; the leaves are beginning to fall. A crazy summer it has been... my goal was to experience a lot of new [View Full Entry]

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I've been trying to do what makes me happiest for about four months now. Sometimes it's hard and sometimes unpopular (even to me at first). I think the pay off is starting to show through. I feel free. Sterling, Alaska: a town of many quirks and many legends, in their own right. For all the drugs and all the darkness in this small town in the state with the highest alcoholism rate in the nation, there is much brightness to be discovered. Many supportive people with experience that greatly exceeds mine. Plus... there's always lots to do. Last monday I went [View Full Entry]

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