Archive - January 2007

How Ironic

Mistakes happen. Hell, I make them all the time. In fact, I am sure some would say I fuck up pretty much on a daily basis. I found out about this particular mistake this past Monday. As the Faithful Fifteen undoubtedly know, this past December the WWE went back to Iraq for the Fourth...

And The Rest…

The next day we wanted to drive further south, in the hopes of seeing Mt. McKinley. At 20,320 feet, Mt. McKinley is by far the largest mountain in North America. The further south we went, the worse the weather was. Suddenly Fiona screamed for me to stop the 4x4x4x4. With some difficulty...

Denali

Onward to Denali! The scenery just got better and better. And then, after 150 miles of snow covered two-lane road, we made it to Denali National Park. What a disappointment! All but the first three miles of this Connecticut sized National Park were closed. I think we startled the ranger...

Last Resort

Our reservation for this night, which just happened to be my birthday, was at a Bed and Breakfast in the town of Healy. Local folks in Fairbanks warned there wasn’t much to do in Healy. Ah well. What better way to turn 25 than driving through some of the most beautiful scenery on...

Flightseeing

The next day Fiona and I signed up for a ‘flightseeing‘ tour to a little town on the Yukon river called Beaver. There are no roads to this town, the only access is via plane in the winter or boat in the summer. Dee, our pilot, can be seen peeking her head over the wing of her...