Month: June 2016

Weekend Update

The house guests arrived this week. From a distant land which anymore I to refer to as America. It’s just we’re just so damn far away from our fellow countrymen my sense of nationalism has faded over time.

Welcoming the house guests when they arrived

Good for them, not so much for Happy Wife. She looks to forward to a warm sunny day the way you look forward to a root canal appointment. Odd, I know, but I love her.

The house guests (4) left this morning in an R/V (24′) to go fishing for King salmon on the Deshka River, continuing on the next day to Talkeetna where they take off for a flight-seeing trip to Denali, followed the next day by a drive to Denali Park where they’ll take a bus into the park, followed by a two-day drive to Valdez (350 miles), a ferry ride across Prince William Sound to Whittier (a place where We Alaskans like to say the weather’s always “Shittier“), and finally a drive to Seward where they’ll rendezvous with us and the Dog at our place for three days of partying. Only one short week from now! Finally, if anything’s left of them, they’ll drive back to Anchorage, return the R/V , get on a plane and fly back to America. Specifically, Wisconsin.

They texted us from the Deshka this afternoon – The Kings Are In!

I know, right?

But hey, they’re Cheeseheads, so they’re cool.

Today, Happy Wife and I took a breather and went to the Solstice Festival downtown.

Cruel me: I thought to throw a bone (if I’d had one), just to see what might happen

Ice Ice Baby

Happy Wife at Holgate Glacier this past weekend. Click to Embiggen.