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I had to revisit Alaska since my Alaskan gfriend was getting married over the summer of 2007. So I was there from Jul. 3 until Jul.15!!!

These are photgraphs of my beautiful home.

These are other pictures I picked up along the way.  Alaska is such a beautiful state and none of these pictures I took can possibly do it justice.  I feel extrememly fortunate to have had the opportunity to travel this state over a summer.  From Juneau to Anchorage, Fairbanks to Homer, and all the places in between that I got the chance to see I have to say that this is one of the most wonderfully beautiful, exciting, boring, lonely, enchanting, and friendliest places on this ...

There's watching captive whales at Sea World perform silly stunts for dead fish.  And then there's watching wild whales. You never forget the first whale you see that's not caged.  There's always something fresh about it in your mind and each time I tell this tale, I smile.  I can only compare it to someone seeing a movie for the first time back when cinema was new and unheard of. It was WAY TOO EARLY on May 25th, 2005.  I was working for a small cruise boat made up like...

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Well not the best day for pictures as the clouds covered what little time there was for the sun to shine. BUT I finally got my moose picture and it happened right beside the road. That along with a nice hike in the snow covered birch trees made for a very peaceful day to reflect on the past year. MERRY XMAS....SCOTT

I was in Alaska from August 20th until August 29th of 2006. Visiting one of my best friend, whom I met in New Zealand!! I still need to edit locations and upload more pics later on so bare with me :-)

A day for lazing around, swimming, chatting to many different people and then getting ready for another "formal" dinner.

Last weekend a friend and I took a drive up the Steese Highway, which is northeast of Fairbanks. It's a 162 mile one way road to Circle. We didn't go quite that far as we only went to milepost 85.5, a place called Twelve Mile Summit. Across from the Chatanika Lodge (mile 27.5) there is a short walk to an abandon gold dredge. Over 70 million dollars in gold were extracted from this area between 1926 and 1957.

The trip back to Anchorage we stopped just for an hour at Denali National Park, next trip I will spend some time here,  North America’s tallest mountain Denali.  Then back to the airport and fly to Chicago.  Added photos of post cards i got while there too.

This was a pretty interesting hike since i went with my aunt and a bunch of her girl friends! the view was outstanding and the company was fun. I had wayyyyyyy too much fun taking pictures and was really hoping that i would get to see a bear nibbling on the berry bushes that were all over the place. the begining of the path has some cool looking tree formation that are white and in the dark would look pretty darn creepy! you can see the whole coast of the cook inlet and see anchorage too!

Day 3, 7-23-07:  “If the bear begins to feed on you….”               That morning, I was very glad I had drunk water before going to sleep the night before.  Even still, I was a little dehydrated.  But it wasn’t going to stop me from hiking up a glacier!              We all took showers and said goodbye to Moby Dick and made our way to the Safeway ...

It had to be done. ROAD TRIP. One of those I can't afford to take off (financially) but then again I can't afford not to (emotionally). 300 miles south to Talkeetna was my destination! I started my trip at 2am, cause I wanted to get to a place to take some pictures of Denali at sunrise. I knew it was gonna be a grand trip as as I was loading my car the northern lights where firing off. I arrived at the Alaska Veterans Memorial wayside area around 6:30, a little nap then took alot of pics

Well, what else do you do beside post some pictures on a Saturday night when you are doing laundry. So here are some pics from outside of North Pole at a place called Chena Flood Plains. It's also the place where I took some of the moon pictures I posted in the North Pole/Fairbanks bloggy..

Not only did Juneau become the capital of Alaska in 1906, the small remote inland city is steeped in culture and tradition offering even the remote tourist a free history lesson that they will never forget. Juneau is the only capital that has no roads in or out of the city (literally having end of the road signs). The majority of the cities income is generated from State and Local Government. Tourism follows closely behind with as many as six cruise ships arriving daily dumping off more than...