So tomorrow I leave to Alaska for a month vacation. Last year my wifie and I helped build a log cabin and this year we get to stay in it. I am sooo very excited! It’s hot here in Phoenix, maybe 115F today. Alaska was 71 yesterday. It almost doesn’t seem real, gone on vacation for a month. Life is so very simple up there. Don’t really watch TV, like to read the paper there. There is always a funny bear story like the guy who heard some noise downstairs and got up. When he opened his door there was a black bear standing there a foot in front of him! That would wake you up!

But Alaska for me is a spiritual journey. I grow so much there. The life is simple, no crazy war, barely any cars, and people are simple, nice and friendly. We stay on an 80 acre farm next to another 1000 acre one. There are horses next door and a muskox farm close by. It stays light 22 hours a day right now so you never seem to get tired. We play horseshoes, swat mosquitos with electrified tennis raquets and watch them explode. You see 1500lbs mooseses on the side of the road grazing like cattle. And the salmon runs are amazing. At some times you can see literally thousands on 20-30lbs salmon swimming upstream. One bay we were fishing in had an estimated 13 million salmon in it. A fish was jumping out of the water every 10 feet for miles. Every so often you see a bear, but they don’t bother you. We are doing a fly in fishing trip and should have bears all around us. There is an educated guide with us so there bears won’t bother us. Besides there will be zillions of salmon for them to eat.

Alaska seems so far away from the crazy life. It is just relaxing. The mountains shootup so high everywhere. And the glaciers are an amazing site. It seems we need to cleanse our spirit periodically or we begin to decay. I try to do that everyday, but this trip will no doubt be an enlightening experience that will elevate my soul.

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Also, we have a new writer Corey and you can see his awesome first post below this one! If anybody would like to write too, let me know.