YOU KNOW YOU'RE IN ALASKA WHEN......the problem pests for your garden aren't rabbits, but moose!
...you start seeing a drive through coffee hut on every corner
...your first day visiting your Alaskan relatives involved a lunch of reindeer sausages, and sitting around hearing bear encounter stories
...you overhear someone say “man, it’s really hot today” (I think the temperature was a balmy 75F)
...you mention that you need to get ice for the cooler, and your aunt - without a moment’s hesitation or the slightest hint of a joke - says "you could always chip some off one of the glaciers”
...many of the roads are like a roller coaster because of the heaves caused by permafrost...the airports have water runways in addition to the regular runways, for all the float planes
...the person at the public lands office, when asked about camping spots, answers “you can pretty much camp anywhere.”
...you can only get to the capitol city by boat or plane
...you roll out of the tent in the morning to find the elusive Mt. McKinley and the whole Alaska Range spread before you clear as day
...the highway numbers are all single digits because there seem to only be that many.
...on a fishing trip in Valdez, the boat has to take a detour to get some ice for the cooler.
guess where we got the ice...
1 comment:
sweet. There is no ice to chip off here in Frankfurt, but the weather has been a little brisk.
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