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cockpit with binoculars in one hand each have a population of maybe
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and a cup of hot tea in the other. twenty people or less; many of their
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Regretfully, after our visit to Glacier inhabitants, I suspect, running from
Kirkland, WA 98033
Bay, we must redeposit our friends once convention, if not the law.
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more in Juneau for their flight home. By the time we return to our winter
But, hey, we’re in Alaska - the land of haven of Sidney, B.C., we have sailed
adventure. Where else can you ‘pop’ by Last Resort more than 4,000 miles,
the Mendenhall Glacier on the way to having started the year’s journey in
U. S. Maritime Academy
Safeway, but in Juneau? We really did Mexico. Experiencing the occasional
this sweet spot a disservice by rushing adrenaline-rush from dodging icebergs
A Captain's License...
through it in about 20 minutes. We did has wrought a change in us - some
Without
what my German son-in-law describes sort of spiritual transition. We’ve
as “American sightseeing.” That’s checked out danger like an English
Coast
where you drive by and look at places, teacher diagramming a sentence.
rather than get out of the car. (This We’ve discovered a heady disconnect Guard
predilection no doubt accounts for the from limits. Icebergs no longer seem as
size of many American bottoms.) If we threatening. Exams!
ever return to Mendenhall, I’d like to Sharon Drechsler and her husband
spend the day. You know, take a kayak, are writers currently cruising aboard their
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a thermos of hot coffee and maybe one Catalina 470 sailboat, “S/Y Last Resort,”
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of those astronaut diapers. somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.
For the most part, Alaskan towns
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