Hello everyone! I had so much fun in Alaska! Man, being home felt so good. I get so homesick for the country up there. There is nowhere else like it in the world, and pictures and even film just don't do it justice. It felt like food for the soul, letting my eyes drift across the steep and rugged and untouched terrain. I feel lucky to have been raised in what I can only describe as one of the most breathtaking and wild places in the world. I have traveled all over the world and have seen so many magical, beautiful and majestic places- but nothing like Homer. It's the way the mountains climb right out of the ocean on jagged wings- turning grey and slate and green and navy all in turns, and how glaciers flash their shocking blue undercoats through crevices in the ice that become visible in the slow bends of the frozen flow. The country that raised me is big and wild and I wandered endlessly on my horse in open country, where there are still open ranges where cattle graze with no fences, and bands of horses run wild in that big beautiful country, and where wolves and bears are a real predator to guard against. I just love it up there.
The first thing I did was have my dad take us to the head of Kachemak Bay, where my aunt Mariis has a cute cabin.I used to live with her and help her run her business, taking tourists on horse rides up the beach to this valley and all its riches. I used to saddle the horses and cook for them. Memories come flooding back as we rode 4-wheelers across the grassy plains. We arrived at the swollen banks of the Fox River and rowed a small boat to get to the other side where we had a picnic sitting on a grassy knoll, waiting for my uncle Otto to come with his horses to push his cattle across the Fox.
To read more about my trip back home to Alaska and see lots of pictures, click here!
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