Posts in the “alaska” category

Every spring I think about moving back to Alaska. This is a photo of the cabin I lived in in Talkeetna, Alaska back in the day.

I don’t remember where exactly in Palmer, Alaska I took this photo, but my best guess is that I was on a bike ride near some of the farms. I just found this photo this morning, so I thought I’d share it here.

Back in the day I was living in Palmer, Alaska, and I just started to look into renting this small brown building to be a home for my software-consulting business during the day and yoga classes during the night, when some family issues came up and I moved back to the Lower-48.

There probably wasn’t enough work in the Palmer/Wasilla area — also known as the Mat-Su Valley — but I loved the area so much I wanted to give it a try.

The Arctic Circle sign off the Dalton Highway in Alaska. If I remember right, this is less than an hour's drive from Fairbanks.

This is a photo of the Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, in Palmer, Alaska. It used to be on my bike-riding path when I lived in Palmer.

This is part of a little log cabin church that used to be on my walking/biking path in Palmer, Alaska.

I don’t mean to brag, but if you have the mug ...

When I first learned about Scala I lived in Talkeetna, Alaska, population ~876 (in the summer). Talkeetna is mostly known as a base for expeditions to Denali, and for possibly inspiring the excellent tv series, Northern Exposure. Some of my first Scala blog posts were written while sitting in this cafe. :)

The image shown comes from this Flying Squirrel Bakery Cafe Facebook page.

Back in March, 2010, I drove up to Alaska. This is the office of a little motel in Canada ... at the moment I can’t remember the name of the town, but I know where to find it. :)

I haven’t been back to Alaska in a long time now, but this is what the movie theater in Homer, Alaska looked like the last time I was there.

This is a terrific photo of the Flying Squirrel Bakery Cafe in Talkeetna, Alaska. The photo comes from this Facebook page, and their website is flyingsquirrelcafe.com.

This photo is from the Talkeetna Air Taxi Facebook page. Back in the day, I lived about 100 yards from where this photo was taken.

A picture of four sled dog paintings from a motel in Healy, Alaska.

A snow covered road in Wasilla, Alaska, from the winter of 2010/2011. They don't plow the roads much in Alaska, especially the side roads.

Sled dogs, from the start of the 2011 Iditarod, on the lake in Willow, Alaska. (I took this photo that day.)

In Anchorage, Alaska, Walmart has apparently trained the ravens to help with the return of carts. If you look carefully you’ll see that there are at least five ravens in this photo.

~ December 9, 2010

“I can’t judge. There are two kinds of people in Alaska: those who were born here, and those who come here to escape something. I wasn’t born here.”

~ Rachel Clement, Insomnia

This is a photo of Denali from about 70-90 miles south on Highway 3. I think I was just before or after the gas station in Willow when I pulled over and took this photo.

Dateline November 2, 2010, somewhere in Alaska: Lots of snow this morning. I'm curious to see if it affects the senate race between Joe Miller (Republican primary winner, Tea Party candidate), Lisa Murkowski (Republican primary loser, incumbent, write-in candidate), and whoever the other person is. And there goes someone jogging in the snow and dark.

Personal Diary, September 2, 2010, Wasilla, Alaska:

I bought a fig at the grocery store today. Turns out they’re about the size of a Hershey’s Kiss. The checkout person just looked at me. “One fig? You want to buy one fig?”

“Yes, just one. I want to see what they taste like.”

She put the fig in the bag without weighing it. “I’m pretty sure I can give you one fig without charging you for it,” she said.