While not quite the moon, or Alaska even, the city of Leavenworth will be my home for the next month! I found a grad student / accountant on craigslist who had an extra room to rent pretty cheap, and also just a few hundred yards from where my guide training company, Blue Sky Outiftters, puts there boats in the water for the rest of my guide training. Also, the view from my room is an absolutely breath taking view of Wedge Mountain. This crappy picture does it no justice, but there ye go. Unlike western Washington such as Seattle that sits in the coastal rains and such, Leavenworth is on the east side of the Cascades, and gets 300 days of sunshine a year! The city of Leavenworth is a big tourist attraction - the whole
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