We flew into Alaska’s largest city, Anchorage, and were greeted by Becky’s brother, Phil, his wife, Ok-Kyung and their two children, Alexander and Sophia who live there. Her other brother, Matt and his wife, Helen, flew in from California later that night so we all had several days together as a family before the next leg of travel. Matt and Helen, avid birders, had planned a side trip to Kodiak with a particular quest in mind – to capture a natural close up of a tufted puffed on its cliff-side perch. They remembered seeing a great number of puffins on a ferry ride from Seward to Kodiak many years earlier. We had pre-arranged to join them so the four of us had ferry reservations between Homer and Kodiak, a slight route variation but one that made
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