Chasing The Blue Beyond

Alaska Timeline Adventure Alaska Timeline Adventure "Alaska is a lot like pizza. When it's good, it's really good. When it's bad, it's still pretty good; and like the Pizza Guy, Alaska always delivers." July 2012 Seattle - The Journey Begins The adventure begins in Seattle - "The Flannel Manner." I have my reservations, but the call of the Last Frontier beckons. This is where different ships converge, but we're all embarking on the same boat - Mother Nature's. "Energy flows where attention goes. Sometimes, I get an incredible ROI, return on investment by being in the right place at the right time doing the right thing." July 2012 Inside Passage - The Journey...

Alaska Field Notes · King of Fish Salmon Fishing I had been fishing all season—not only for the fish, but for what wild salmon symbolize: the Pacific Northwest’s natural splendor. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir There is a fine line between fishing and standing on a bridge looking like an idiot—unless you are in Alaska holding a salmon. The Call Truly the King of Fish King of Fish In Alaska, the bridge, the river and the salmon all become part of the proof. I have been fishing all season, but not only for the fish. I have been fishing for what the wild salmon symbol...

More like Blue Sky Fjords  205 inches of rain a year and not one drop today. A unique Alaskan experience— We took off from Ketchikan Harbor Seaplane Base,  and the self-proclaimed Salmon capital of the world---the place where people don't get old, they rust...and rust never sleeps. Up in the air for 30 minutes on the single engine "flying boat" and the small remote mountain lakes  we saw below would be next to impossible to reach on foot, a reminder that most of this area is still wilderness and accessible only by small boat or plane.  In the heyday, I could imagine how snail mail (US) delivery runs must have been done this way. Hey Hey, My My Yet they were spectacular by air, like waves  each one  more powerful than the next. Pilot Jeff Carlin, picked out one of the lakes, landed the "puddle jumper"  and  JC turned off the noisy diesel engine that was a reminder that we left  the  the buzz of everyday life. A kind of...

The way I see it, if you want to see Rainbow Falls, you gotta put up with the rain. I think salmon fish in the package is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge? Many consider the Tongass National Forest to be the "crown jewel" of our national forest system  One thing for sure- It's a  Watershed Moment---A point in time when nothing after will ever be the same as before when it comes to my appreciation for precipitation. It's no longer  the path of moist resistance. I like the rain. I finally got my bearings...

Alaska Origin Story · Ferry North Bears? No Guarantee. Totem Poles? Absolutely. I boarded the Alaska Marine Highway in Bellingham looking for passage north. By the time we reached Ketchikan, I had three job offers and an entirely different summer. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir I went north as a passenger. I arrived with three job offers and a summer job explaining why wildlife refuses to honour the brochure. The Call The Ferry North I took the Alaska Marine Highway from Bellingham, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska. It was not supposed to be a career move. It was transportation. Somewhere between the Inside Passage, the cold deck air and the steady parade of isla...

And the vagabond wind, whispers over the bay and the songs and the laughter, are carried away in the sky Anywhere there is blue on the map you can find them. Seaplanes don't need runways.Taking off and landing in water has a romantic fascination because float planes  can go places that you can't get to otherwise.  De Plane, De Plane

And I Say It's Alright 5 days a year there is pure sunshine, the rest are liquid.  The Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger District encompasses over 3.2 million acres of temperate rainforest, mountain peaks, glaciers, alpine tundra, muskegs, lakes, rivers, and streams. Time to take a hike and listen to The Beatles... The first tune I learned  to play on guitar was “Horse With No Name”, the second, "Here Comes The Sun” . It’s light and simple and my favorite George Harrison song. The song is in A chromatic-minor with an A tonic major chord.[2] The refrain uses a IV (D chord) to V (E chord) progression (the reverse of that used in "Eight Days a Week" ). The melody in the verse and refrain basically follows the pentatonic scale from E up to C♯ (scale steps 5, 6, 1, 2, 3.Now where is my guitar..oh yea--- Gently weeping. YESterday was cold and rainy But Here Comes The Well -Deserved Sun

If people concentrated on the really important things they'd be a shortage of fishing poles.  Carpet Diem means fish of the day around here. Pinks and Silver-Ko ho salmon. Fishing is actually boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting I Hear Invoices   I am thinking of that movie with Brando " I coulda been a contender." the central theme of the coulda, shouda, woulda crowd. At sea, however,  we have no CNN effect  nor 57 channels  to tell us our dancing, singing and comedy  is not good enough as American Idol-click- or DWTS-click, TMZ-click or Reality TV. The Way In Is The Way Out It's all self referential which ends up being the way out of the Contender Syndrome and  America’s culture of envy, and wanting be, do, and have more. The disease of more is  really an indictment of our  own judgments that we haven’t accomplished enough. Reaching our potential comes from a discrepancy ...

Back in Ketchikan, Its Tlingit Indian name, Kach Khanna, means “spread wings of the eagle".  and I have seen many of them. I am within minutes by float plane from Misty Fjords and the Tongas National Rain Forest. Timber harvesting is all but over, and the environmental narrative is about this place, while not being  as bio-diverse as The Amazon, Tongas  is denser and the largest rainforest  in the US,at 17 Million acres Among the salmon and deer and black bears, and trees

Doing some eco-tourism in Washington State and meeting people that work for Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon ,those bio tech firms and of course Starbucks.But I would have really liked to talk story with Chief Seattle.Here is his take on real estate. It is not just location, location, location:"Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every meadow, every humming insect. All are holy in the memory and experience of my people." "Will you teach your children what we have taught our children? That the earth is our mother? What befalls the earth befalls all the sons of the earth. This we know: the earth does not belong to us but man to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself"

Alaska Field Notes · Foreign Land Where Wilderness Is Therapy Glacier Bay, Juneau and Ketchikan: blue ice, rain country, living mirrors, and the wilderness that reduces the ego to its proper size. See Full Image Show Text Ordinary World The Call Answer the Call Foreign Land Trials The Elixir Alaska makes me want to wrap myself in tinfoil and walk on the moon. The Call Marjorie Glacier: Living Geology Glacier Bay National Park Marjorie Glacier is one of the most photogenic glaciers in Glacier Bay. I had the good fortune to be there. None of these landscapes are ugly because they are natural and wild. I learn geography by travelling...