The Last Frontier. Alaska holds a special place in my heart–I spent four years in college in Anchorage, seven summers in Bettles and one winter in Fairbanks. I shared my adventures on my blog so that friends and family could stay connected and I left them here so you could see a small part of Alaska.
What to expect driving the Alaska Highway and the Cassiar Highway Naturally North Idaho is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an…
The warm, sunny days in early May made part of spring feel like summer. Summer technically doesn’t begin until the summer solstice on June 20…
As I walked towards the water-filled gravel pit early one morning last week, a sound filled the air that I hadn’t heard since spring–the honking…
Arctic tern eggs are camouflaged extremely well. I spent nearly twenty minutes searching for this egg that I knew was in this area and was…
Today I witnessed an incredible event that will not occur again in my lifetime–the transit of Venus across the face of the sun. The next…
Tonight the first salad of the summer completely grown above the Arctic Circle graced the table. The vegetables were planted the beginning of May in…
The last few days have been filled with signs of spring. The first rain shower of the year allowed the creation of the first rainbow–a…
The northern lights danced across the star-studded sky last week but this time twilight was encroaching–even at 2 a.m. Outlines of trees on the northern horizon were…
When was the last time you were thankful you had a flush toilet? A shower in your house? How about running water? Showers, flush toilets,…
Tis the season of spring migration and as birds return to their northern summering grounds, I return to my summering grounds in Bettles, Alaska. Located…
Snow. Snow. And more snow. Over 100 inches of snow fell in Bettles over the winter and has settled into about four feet of snow.…
Located downriver about six miles from Bettles is Old Bettles—orginally called Bettles until the new Bettles was built and after that it was referred to as Old…