OK. No go on a job yet. Still waiting for the hiring manager to get in contact with me. We are once again going apartment looking today. Yesterday sucked, every apartment we looked at was crappy and nasty and they all wanted around 850.00 for a 1 bedroom with all outdated appliances and roaches included!!! If we dont have good luck today its a good possibility we will cut our losses and try somewhere else. [View Full Entry]

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Sorry things have been incredibly stressed out lately since we have gotten to Anchorage. Between finding jobs, apartments, etc... I think I have a stomach ulser... anyway, hopefully everything goes as planned and we will keep you updated as soon as something happens. There is plenty of free wifi in Anchorage so it shouldnt be a problem. We are turning this profile to private and continuing to post our journey in Alaska. So if you havent subscribed yet, DO IT!!! or else you wont get to read our blogs anymore.. Our phones work now so feel free to text and call. [View Full Entry]

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Wow...so time is escaping me and it has been over a week since I have returned from Anchorage. Well let's just say that once you've lived in the Southeast (aka...Juneau, the capitol city of this wonderful land I call home) nothing else can compare. I didn't know how true that was until I went to Anchorage from May 13th through the 15th for the Alaska EPSCoR All-Hands Meeting. Alaska EPSCoR (Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research) is the awesome foundation (yes, I use the word awesome) that gave me some grant funding to study my little sculpin. And so, since I [View Full Entry]

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Well I'm all packed and ready for my first overseas adventure. I have my backpack packed and ready to go! I wont be checking any bags so all that I need for my five weeks is very easy to carry!! I got to the airport around 12:30am and got checked in OK and off thru the gate I went! My plane was delayed for over an hour. This was Ok with me because it gave me time to enjoy several ice cold Alaskan Ambers!! Which then allowed me to enjoy the take off!! The plane was packed and for this being [View Full Entry]

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Well, you probably don't wish you were here right now, but I wanted to share some pics of what it looks like here when it's a little warmer. Right now it's 32 which is like a heatwave! I am a photographer and do landscape and marketing photos.......I know alot about what kinds of things are available in Alaska to do. Would you like to take a trip by air with your own Bush Pilot and see 'real' Alaska? Go Whale Watching? Fishing? See the Northern Lights? See the National Parks? I can help you book anything up here. My goal is [View Full Entry]

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With all the hype about Sarah Palin running for Vice President, I thought it would be a good time to recount my visit to Alaska. I recall it was October, and my trip started in Portland, Oregon for some reason. I was travelling with Rich Roark, who also worked for my company. We upgraded to first class for the long plane ride to Anchorage. Most people do not know that it is further from San Francisco to Anchorage, than San Francisco to New York. It was the first time I had ice cream on an airline flight. We landed quite late [View Full Entry]

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Okay, So I created this account forever ago when I first started thinking about going to Argentina, the day is finally here and I will be leaving tomorrow. This site will house all of my pictures and exploits for those that I know and those that I don’t to see. Feel free to leave comments. This will be the first of many I expect. -John [View Full Entry]

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Welcome to fall in Anchorage (which is NOT the capitol of Alaska, as several journalists have wrongly regurgitated in recent articles I have read). The leaves have already turned and the fireweed has bloomed and burned past its flame like color into a fluffy white fringe. Since mid September, layers of snow have slowly been creeping down the sides of the Chugach Mountains as a constant reminder that summer has ended. In fact the first snow is falling in the city as I write this, in the form of a mushy slush blurring windshields and striking fear into the hands of [View Full Entry]

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I'm going to give a bit of an evaluation of the tour operators that I've travelled with. Maybe this will someday come up when someone's researching one of them and hopefully it will help them out! Greenforce: The pre-trip stuff is a nightmare! It's hard to get questions answered and a couple people in our group were misinformed about various aspects of the trip. Once we were in Nepal it was amazing! Our tour leader was well-travelled and experienced so he knew how to deal with any sort of event that came up. The local Nepal group, RCDP, wasn't as great. [View Full Entry]

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Pictures are not available, sorry. In all my years of travel around the world and living to study in the United States. The worst of the worst chinese food you can find is in Alaska Anchorage. Granted I did not try those at Seward at the Kenai Peninsula, but it could not be compared to those I have tried in Massachusetts, New York, Washington DC or San Fransisco. This restaurant is located at 810th East 6th street. Rice Bowl. However, if you come to Alaska, the best local food is the Silver King Salmon, which you can find almost anywhere and [View Full Entry]

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