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SEARCHING FOR SILVER SALMON

SEARCHING FOR SILVER SALMON

By on September 8, 2008 in Alaska, Travel

We are back in Seward at the J-Dock with minutes to spare. Optimists, we are hauling our big new cooler along in the event we get our limit. Our excursion partners are two friends traveling together from the West Coast, one of whom self-describes as being on the trip of a lifetime.  We can relate. [...]

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SEWARD

By on September 7, 2008 in Alaska, History, Travel

We aren’t on deadline to make Seward, but even so it seems we have made a 2-1/2 hour drive south from Anchorage much longer by stopping to drink in view after view of glacial mountains.  The road into town slows just past Bear Creek and Moose Pass, with houses on small tracts behind screens of [...]

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INTO THE KENAI

By on September 7, 2008 in Alaska, Travel

With our time in Alaska already half-spent, we are heading south from Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula.  Although we’ve been told we should, we will not be going all the way to Homer and its tempting Spit.  I am disappointed, but philosophical.  We just don’t have the time.  So we continue to add to the [...]

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