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Old 11-11-2009, 09:02 PM
 
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Well, lets see...

Moose are not friendly little creatures that you approach to try to pet. Especially when they're hanging out in your yard with their calves. They may come when you call them but it's gonna hurt! (I outran it but barely, pretty stupid of me).

Moose like to sit in the snow in the yard, sometimes for a long time and you do not have to call the animal control people. I could almost hear the laughter 'cross town after they hung up the phone. "But, it hasn't moved for a while, you sure it's OK?" "Uhhhh...Probably so, (snort)."

If the locals tell you it gets cold and you need a block heater, well, you should believe them and not think, "ahhh, it can't get that cold!" Let me tell ya, a light bulb under the hood, not even 100 watts, keeps your engine from freezing when it's -40. Well, it didn't for me anyway!

Since I didn't have a block heater in my car at first, I was told I'd want to start it frequently or it would freeze. "Yeah, OK, sure a car freezes." Oh, yes it does! I thought to myself, "gee I should have listened" as I was watching it being towed away to get a block heater installed.

I learned the hard way several times that if the locals tell you something to help ya out, you'd better believe it. They know what they're talking about. Alaska is a pretty humbling place in my opinion, when you think you know everything.
Andrea, awesome post.
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Old 11-12-2009, 05:33 AM
 
Location: on top of a mountain
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Andrea, awesome post.
ditto!!! great fun reading!!!
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Old 11-13-2009, 01:24 AM
 
Location: Fort Wainwright . . . Finaly
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do you mean fort wainwright or wainwright?

Fort Wainwright, didn't realize there was a town of the same name, however I'm sure it wont be last last time I stick my foot in my mouth in regards to my lower 48 nievete. Though I don't think I'll call animal control if I find a moose on the lawn, lol, good story.
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Old 11-13-2009, 04:07 AM
 
Location: Big Island- Hawaii, AK, WA where the whales are!
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I thought i posted but just looked through and didn't see any. Forgive me if I repost.

I wanted to go to Mexico for my birthday, after my father died couldn't find birth certificate. Needed to get away. I went to Hawaii which I fell in love with. Meet many people from Alaska wintering in Hawaii. They invited me up to Alaska in the summer always wanted to drive the Alcan and come to Alaska ... so I did it this summer. Now wanted to make Alaska part time part of my life.

Didn't think I could do the darkness of Alaska in the winter. As I sit home dark already at 4pm I wish I had the snow to lighten things up. Knowing the next couple of months will be even worse. I do miss the snow in the moonlight. Calling for snow tomarrow/today hope so!!! Can't wait only another month before Hawaii and hopefully Alaska by May!
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Old 11-20-2009, 12:12 AM
 
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I had to choose between two jobs. My options were in Louisiana, or Fairbanks.

A lot of my family and friends think I'm nuts, but I'm so happy I moved up here. I love the cold and snow, it's a beautiful place, and there's a completely different attitude here than in the midwest. I think I made the right choice, but mebbe I should see if I survive the winter, first
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Old 11-21-2009, 12:22 AM
 
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Default It all started with a 2 week vacation in '77..........

I was back from a 4 year stint in the USMC and had been home (MT) for a little over 18 months. I wasn't used to sitting in one spot too long and was getting antsy for a trip when I received an offer of a fishing trip to Alaska. It sounded good so I was off and running in July of 77. I saw all of Ancharage and the Kenai, where I caught some very nice Kings.

I liked it and commented to a few friends that, "I could live here for a while". I was offered a job in Anchorage, and took it, with the intention of staying "just a year" to see all of the seasons.

A year and a half later as I was getting ready to leave, on a whim and at the urging of a friend, I applied for a position with the state. I ended up getting the job and hung around for another 30+ years, mostly in the interior...............those state jobs were very attractive back then. I am since retired and looking towards Mesquite, NV or S/W Utah for a change in temperature.............

It's been nice here, and I'll be back for the summers.....JUST the summers.

I did manage to see "all of the seasons"
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Old 11-21-2009, 01:12 AM
 
Location: The end of the road Alaska
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Fresh out of high school in Helena, Mt. I answered an ad for a cook in a remote Alaska logging camp. Air fare paid, room & board plus $20 a day. That was a fortune in 1965! I had no idea how to boil water, not a clue what a logging camp was like, or Alaska for that matter. But I could read so I bought a Betty Crocker cookbook and got on a plane for Alaska. I'm still here and I still have that cookbook. At 18 I learned to cook on 26 hungry loggers that summer. Halfway through the season they bragged on the vhf that they had the best cook in southeast.
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Old 11-22-2009, 04:21 PM
 
Location: Northwestern Illinois
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Wow! After reading all these posts, it sounds like one actually can move to Alaska and make it work! Thanks for sharing!
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Old 08-30-2010, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Vermont
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Transplanted southerners and semisoutherners(me) eat grits!
Arctic you just need to have them prepared correctly. Yumm!

Couldn't find the right kind in the stores here so every now and again my family or friends will send me a box! Just got one last week!

Northerners eat grits. Southerners eat greeuts.
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Old 08-30-2010, 02:41 PM
 
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Nice stories in the zombie thread!
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