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Old 09-05-2007, 07:20 PM
 
Location: Alaska
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Cold, dark, nothing to do or no one to talk to, so to speak...can drive some people postal in a matter of weeks.
Well, I'm sorta the opposite. I go postal if I don't get a good dose of solitude.
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Old 09-05-2007, 08:40 PM
 
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I also wouldn't consider someone to be living in 'the bush' if they have easy boat access to a town or city.
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Old 09-09-2007, 02:58 AM
 
Location: Alaska
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One of the reasons I moved to Alaska in 1980 was because pot was legal.

Other reasons I forgot!
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Old 02-27-2008, 05:54 AM
 
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For Matthew in the House, "it looks so beautiful, is it as beautiful as it looks?"

My reply? "More... !"
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Old 02-27-2008, 10:16 AM
 
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For the remoteness, the beauty, mountains, the wildlife, dogsledding, the SNOW!!! The cold weather...the Northern Lights....I could go on and on...

After I got here though, the best thing (besides all the beauty) is the fact that people up in AK "live and let live". Nobody looks down their nose at you. People tend to their own business and let others do the same. The "pioneer spirit" is alive and well. People are hardy and self sufficient. If you need help though, people are more than happy to lend a hand.


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"Alaska: Home of the Individual and Other Endangered Species"
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Old 02-27-2008, 08:06 PM
 
Location: Not far from Fairbanks, AK
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I've never been but getting there is on the list before I die .

it looks so beautiful, is it as beautiful as it looks?
Alaska is beautiful just like any other place. Regardless of location around the world, there is beauty all around us is you only take the time to look. Pictures are just moments in time. It does not mean that the exact same place shown in the photo will look the same way a moment later.

A new place is much like dating. At the beginning all we see and hear we like. Often we only see and hear what we want to see and hear, and it's later when we see the other side... Then we date a another person, and the cycle repeats itself
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Old 02-27-2008, 11:14 PM
 
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I originally went to AK to cook on a salmon boat one summer. I just never got around to leaving again, until circumstances required it over 30 years later.
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Old 02-27-2008, 11:37 PM
 
Location: Not far from Fairbanks, AK
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Forgot to mention it: The military brought me to Alaska back in the '70s. I left for awhile, and then was sent back to Alaska where I retired. I met my wife here, and she put-up with our military life for 20 years, and was very happy when I retired.
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