Every time I came “back to America†from Alaska, I felt simultaneously excited, disquieted, and wistful about the proximity of other states to the state I was visiting. I would exclaim, “You can drive from here to other states! You just go that way on the interstate!†And perhaps people looked at me askance, but it honestly struck me, hard, every time.
I’m used to it now.
Book stuff I complained on Twitter about The Name of the Wind, which I’ve had sitting in my Audible library for a while and decided to finally listen to, now that I’m finished with Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy (which is fantastic!). TNotW is clever, funny, well-written, and well-performed by the…
I’m arguably through the prettiest part of the drive, so here are the photos I’ve taken so far. I might go a little out of my way to see Mt. Rushmore or the Badlands or something (which I’ve already seen and photographed, and anyway I want to show them to…
Anchorage to Tok, AK: 318 miles Tok to Whitehorse, YT: 394 miles (this was miserable) Whitehorse to Watson Lake: 275 miles (this was pretty great) This trip would be so fun with another human, especially, but maybe even alone with no birds to take care of. As I go through…
When we came up to Alaska, Dale and I kept a shared blog. It was a fun way to chronicle a weird journey, both the drive itself and the transition to living in Alaska, which is a pretty unique place. It’s been useful to several people through the years, because…
