Out of Alaska

Sadly my trip to Alaska is already coming to an end.  The original plan was to stay until Saturday, but since I didn't have Andy with me now and the weather here has been dismal, I tried moving it up until Friday.  Otherwise my trip to Seattle would have been cut extremely short as well. 

Alas, tickets out on Friday were going to cost an arm and a leg and lo and behold, the ticket out on Thursday was not so bad.  So here I am, leaving home 2 days earlier.

I will see my entire family at the wedding in a week and Katie will be meeting me in Portland in a few days anyhow.

Yesterday mum and I took a drive up to Talkeetna - my first time visiting.  The weather wasn't great but it was still a very cool town with a number of fun restaurants and bars.  Supposedly on a clear day you have amazing views of Denali, but that wasn't going to be for us.  Still it was good catching up with mum, shooting the shit on everything from family to movies as per our norm.

On a guess I tested out some of the geographically based dating sites while I was up here.  Not surprisingly, there didn't seem to be much reason to return from a potential 'love' perspective - not that I'm ready for all of that again anyhow.  But was curious as to what the pool around here would be like.  The funniest part was that when I switched it on while in Talkeetna it was all the same people available from Palmer, only further away.  While having drinks with my friends the other night we discussed how Alaska actually has a very racially diverse population but lacking a bit in the 'homosexual' department.  Not a big surprise, and I'm sure there are plenty of fish to be found if one tried hard enough.

Looking forward to catching up with friends in Seattle and Portland, happy to see those that I caught up with here in Alaska (primarily Dawn & Mikael), hoping to catch a few rays of sun down in the Lower 48.