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[Well, dear readers, I had 4 amazing days backpacking off trail in the Talkeetnas and am heading up north for a sightseeing train ride today. Meantime, I’ll play catch up on the blog as best I [...]

[Many thanks to the men who made me laugh until I cried all weekend. That may be the only wedding I ever attend where all the groomsmen are comedians. I highly recommend this for anyone who can [...]

“Hey, did you take my camera? I have a blog to update!” “What makes you think it was me?” [Sorry for the delay, folks…here’s the whirlwind portraits of [...]

Wedding day.Exhausted. Overjoyed. Confused about which coast and time zone I am in.Going to sleep.

My bags arrive 12 hours behind me the next day. I catch a ride with other members of the wedding party and we’re out of Seattle by noon. We have a 5-hour drive and a rehearsal dinner to be at by [...]

Boys will bite as will bears, and I hope to experience neither but see both. And so it is that I continue in my studies of The Last Frontier, whose landscape I intend to take inspiration from. [...]

[Today is the 4-year anniversary of this blog! Read the inaugural entry at: http://kateyschultz.livejournal.com/2005/07/29/] Hardly a minute to write, as my flight leaves in nine hours. But a few [...]

More advice, this time from Lis (the black belt from our dojo who had to move away). She grew up in the Alaska bush because her parents were white teachers hired to teach Native children. That’s [...]

Packing, unpacking, and repacking. Down vest? Zero degree back or my 40 degree bag? Long sleeved cotton shirts for mosquito protection: one or two? Can I mail the wedding clothes from Walla Walla [...]

In anticipation of the Alaska trip, I read Nancy Lord’s Green Alaska last month. July hit at about the same time I cracked upon John McPhee’s 438-page opus on the last frontier, titled Into the [...]