Rev. 10/21/01

Alaska & beyond - continued
Postscript

To try to summarize a four month, 23,00 mile trip in one page is a real challenge, but I'll try -- first, it is all the interesting people I met along the the way.  And from there it becomes a series of "snap shots" --

A week, traveling alone with my granddaughter   the majesty of the first really large glacier I saw   Denali -- the size, its unspoiled ruggedness, and its animals   the "Pipe Line" -- you can't help be impressed with the feat of it   "My Moose" -- up close and personal   the first Grayling I caught   the Dempster Highway to Inuvik -- I'd like to travel it in the winter   Tuktoyaktuk on the Arctic Ocean -- Morine's story should be preserved   Valdez and the salmon fishing -- I want to return   Cordova, the unspoiled isolation of it   Haines -- the Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve and Chilkat River area   the Skeena River area, Kitiimat, and the Nachako -- on going concern   grizz on the river   Bella Coola, I'll go back there   9/11   Steelhead and the Bulkley River -- frosting on the cake!

It was a long, wondrous trip, one I'd dreamed about for years, and years -- saw things I'd seen only in my imagination.  The trip was like a smorgasbord -- I sampled a million things.  Will I do it again?  Most definitely yes, but now that I've sampled the area, I know where I want to return to.  And or course, I'll try new things I missed on this trip -- its great country.

 As with all trips, it was good to get home to Honolulu -- my Alaska trip was

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