This is a re-post from a year ago. We were fresh back from our trip to Alaska and in the midst of chronicling our experiences. Consult this handy reference for definitions of “cheechako,” “Outsider” and others. I think it’s safe to say when we arrived in Alaska, we expected it to be teeming with wildlife [...]
Archive | August, 2009
A MEAL COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE
I recently finished My Life in France, by Julia Child (written with her nephew, Alex Prud’homme). I had been amazed to read elsewhere that one meal had awakened her dormant passion for all things food, and I wanted to know what that meal was. Julia went on, in turn, to awaken passion in many Americans. [...]
LESSONS FROM THE ROAD: IT’S ALL GOOD, EH
Our friend John has returned from his trip that we have been chronicling in a series of “From the Road” posts. His dispatches have been insightful, corny, hilarious, and reflective. He is a gifted writer in that it has felt like we were along for the ride. We know he envisioned this trip as a [...]
LAKE MINNETONKA – THE LURE AND THE LORE
In 1822, two teenage boys, Joe Brown (for whom Brown’s Bay was eventually named) and Will Snelling (whose father lent the family surname to the fort under his command on the Mississippi River) set secretly off westward in a canoe on what came to be known as Minnehaha Creek. They were looking to discover a [...]
PASSING THRU: A YEAR
A year ago, we had penned our first couple of posts and were packing for our trip to Alaska. We had envisioned PassingThru to be a chronicle of our travels, but we virtually abandoned it during that trip and for some time afterward while we digested the impact of the last frontier. When I was [...]
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Peter and Betsy Wuebker are location-independent professionals who share what they know about travel, simplicity and integrating work with life. 