you people seriously livein alaska? (Anchorage, Fairbanks: tornadoes, camp, to live in)

[alan roberson]

we start drinking in January...

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Originally Posted by alan roberson

we start drinking in January...

Me too, I always honor my New Years resolution to stop drinking. I usually stop around 3-4 in the morning on the 1st when I pass out and don't touch another drop until I wake up again later that afternoon.

[aroddy]

I'm not the first guy that started this post, but I'm just as ignorant. I mean, seriously. Why would you want to live in Alaska? Especially Fairbanks or anywhere that cold? You must be messed up in the head. I live in Colorado and I can barely make it through a winter here. I mean, c'mon.

[mal_flisk]

I just spent 5 days in the interior and in Prince William Sound in Valdez. The scenery is beyond belief. It was only in the -20's at night, but the days were around minus single digits, and that is warm enough for a sweatshirt and a t-shirt if the wind is calm. Valdez was about 12 to 17 degrees, and the wind was gusting up to 70 miles per hour. I wanted my thermals and my gator mask. Valdez has to be one of the most beautiful cities in Alaska. It's built in an honest-to-God fjord, mountains rising from the edge of town and the road into it and across the sound. The drive through the Keystone canyon into town is a wonder by itself. The falls are frozen a neat blue turquoise.

Glennallen is a neat little town. It's at the junction of the Glenn and Richardson highways. The folks are the nicest in the world. If you know anybody on those roads, you're automatically accepted by everybody. Everybody knows EVERYONE. Your driving the only roads that access the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, the largest US national park. You're driving along the Copper River Valley. You're driving in an alpine wonder.

Who'd live anywhere else?

[Rainy]

That's fine, our feelings won't be hurt if you stay in Colorado

There's nothing worth having that doesn't involve some challenges. Guess that's what makes the people here special; we're up to it.

Mal-fisk I agree with everything you said in your post. Did you get any photographs while you were out there?

[Travel'r]

Originally Posted by aroddy

I'm not the first guy that started this post, but I'm just as ignorant. I mean, seriously. Why would you want to live in Alaska? Especially Fairbanks or anywhere that cold? You must be messed up in the head. I live in Colorado and I can barely make it through a winter here. I mean, c'mon.

Kinda like a San Diegoian or Hawai'ian wondering just why somebody would stay in Colarado all winter(s)?

[Rance]

Might have something to do with a persons pioneer spirit. Wanting to see whats over the next ridge, and the next and the next. Some folks are meant to be here...some should never even have looked in a northern direction. I could'nt live anywhere else but Alaska. It's gets in your blood and under your skin, and is a very hard habit to break!

[Liz1_06]

OK ~ Time for me to add my 3 cents... ( I just can't stop at 2 cents )

aroddy ~ How in the world did you manage to stay in Colorado this winter ????

I've lived there on and off for 20 yrs ... the summer of 2005 was so blasted hot it melted the molding around my car doors in Brighton it was 100+ degrees everyday for 2+ months straight !!!! Yeah, I moved back to Minnesota !!!!

This winter Colorado has had more snow then Minnesota ( where I Live now) and colder weather....

On my desk top I have the weather for Kenai Ak, and St Paul, MN ~ Alaska has been 20 degrees warmer most of the winter...

Don't knock what you haven't tried !!!!!

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Originally Posted by aroddy

Why would you want to live in Alaska? Especially Fairbanks or anywhere that cold? You must be messed up in the head.

Living in the desert for the past 27 years, its the 120+ degree heat that has fried my brain cells so bad that caused me to be so messed up in the head that I cannot wait to move to Alaska. LOL!!!

5 years-1 day and counting to our move to the north.

[Rance]

Hey don't feel bad. I went a 20 year stretch without "leaving" Alaska up until last year. Then I drove south to MN for 4 1/2 days....stayed one night...and drve 4 1/2 days back to Alaska. Thus ended my 20 year vacation. And I probably drove right past Liz1_06 and did'nt even know it!