Six weeks ago I had pretty much made up my mind to continue traveling and living simply. Then I heard one of the candidates for governor of Alaska, Frank Murkowski, on NPR campaigning on a platform of restoring Alaska’s economy by vastly increasing the oil, timber, and fishing industries within the state, and I decided that it would be irresponsible of me not to do something, no matter how small, to try and fight such people. He was just elected governor, despite his obviously short-sighted plans. This fight is not one that I’m prepared for, nor am I sure exactly what I can do, but it’s a fight that needs to be fought.
Month: November 2002
Palo Alto, California
Posted at 1:30 am, November 5th, 2002It’s much too late to be awake, but the photos from the trip are now up. I wasn’t able to scan the first roll and a half of film because I had to return the scanner, but some time in the next month or so I’ll try and finish the job. Anyhow, photos are available both as a thumbnail index and also in a slideshow format. There are a lot in there, just to warn anyone connecting via a modem. Enjoy, I know I enjoyed taking them.
Palo Alto, California
Posted at 6:55 pm, November 3rd, 2002While passing through Reno I had the thought that most of the people I was seeing are made of different stuff than the folks up North. Quotes from Alaskans after a recent magnitude 7.9 earthquake that lasted three or four minutes prove it — a woman living in Healy simply said “It was a long one.”, while a man said only “At my house, I lost the hot water heater.” I miss it up there. Story is at CNN.
About half of the trip photos have been scanned in, and I’ll do my best to get the rest done before I have to return the scanner tomorrow afternoon. Please let me know if there are any broken links, other problems or suggestions for displaying images better as I’ve had to hack together a quick bit of code to handle putting so many pictures out in any sort of organized fashion.
Palo Alto, California
Posted at 7:45 pm, November 2nd, 2002For those of you who might be curious what I look like while huddled on a mountain in minus-ten degree weather, or what a muskox looks like when photographed from a far closer distance than is probably safe, I’m slowly getting photos scanned into the Alaska Photos section of the site. It will take at least until Monday to get everything sorted out and online so please bear with me. I miss Alaska.