My daughter and I went for a walk along Steep Creek near Mendenhall Glacier here in Juneau Friday evening around 7PM and we saw a juvenile cinnamon Black Bear grazing on the lush grass along the creek bank.

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I grew up in rural south Alabama in the sixties, and except for a hitch in the Air Force in the early seventies lived most of my life there. Over the years I see a multitude of fantastic and quite a few not so fantastic things. I watched Neil Armstrong leave the first footprints in the sterile dust of the moon, and was saddened by the assassination of a president. I’ve seen wars and I’ve seen peace. I’ve seen beauty and I’ve seen beast. But until I came to SE Alaska I had never truly...

What are the pros and cons of Madrid , and Jemez Springs and Laguna New Mexico

Posted Today at 08:06 AM by New Mexico
We are thinging of visiting these area to consider moving there. Please let us know the pro's and cons. We are also touring these towns and visiting Southwestern college in Santa Fe. If you have any pros and cons , we would like to hear them please.

We are thinging of visiting these area to consider moving there. Please let us know the pro's and cons. We are also touring these towns and visiting Southwestern college in Santa Fe. If you have any pros and cons , we would like to hear them please.

Oh boy what a fun experience, such a thing deserves its own blog(my first one too).

Thursday was the day I got my Canadian Visa. Normally these things are not needed for people from the uk but I had to get one anyways because I'm not technically British for at least 2 more months.

Getting the Visa was more hard work than I thought it would be. It started like a scavenger hunt for credentials, they were:

-Passport
-Travel tickets
-Insurance details...