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Alaska – Day 2

Parka is the name for squirrel. Squirrels were used to make coats, hence parka. Icebergs are black in the spring because they soak up the mud they sit in. One hazardous sport is fishing on certain shores where mud is abundant. It is not uncommon for people fishing to get caught in the mud without […]

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Alaska – the Beginning

My travels to Alaska began at 4:15am. I got my four hours of sleep in so I was ready to go. I never “failed” going through security before so I was very surprised when I had to go through a manual pat-down by TSA. It was surrealistic to be out in the open, more or

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