Almost Free!

I'm writing this entry from the Anchorage Airport, where I have spent the last 11 hours. At least I am almost out of Anchorage. My employment plans changed direction like a drunk who just saw a Taco Bell sign on the horizon. Instead of starting in Dutch on the 10th of June, I'm off to Kodiak and would be steaming out to the flat fish grounds in the Gulf right now if my plane had not been delayed. I should be on the fishing vessel "Dawn" for 2-3 weeks. Pictures will be forthcoming. I can't wait to hit the ocean.

Anchors Away!

Anchorage continues to discourage me from ever wanting to live here. I did get out to climb Flat-Top, which was one wacky mountain. It looks like someone just loped off the last 100 ft or so. It did have some nice trees though.

This was shortly followed by getting kicked out of a bar by the name of Humpy's, which demonstrates once again why this city is ass-tastic.

The job is looking almost ideal. I can't wait to get out on the islands. It also looks like I'll be based out Akutan, which provides for more chances at island exploring

Anchorage is dull. I miss the non-stop strangeness of Dutch, the industrial landscape, and the fisher folk at the bars. I can't wait for my plane trip back out there.

Three fisher folk at latitudes, living the good life, re-injecting their paychecks right back into the island economy. I think that they were pretending to be tigers.

Land of the Living Dead

Charlie and myself in an abandoned cliff house overlooking hog island

So I rolled in to Anchorage yesterday, carried on the wings of Pen Air's finest twin prop aeroplane. So far I have to say that I am not thrilled by this town... it looks exactly like Des Moines if Des Moines was near a mountain range and hosted a burgeoning homeless population. Seriously, this place is quite unawe-inspiring. My heart pines for the Rock... seriously I miss the place. Maybe it is just the location of the house which I am crashing in, but this town does have the distinct flavor of any post-apoc zombie movie... I have never seen this many blizted staggerers in this small an area.