We’re enjoying the last day of our brief trip to Alaska today before we head to Seattle for Memorial Day Weekend tomorrow. Though both girls have been here before, in some ways this trip has felt like the first time they’ve really experienced the travel, the excitement, and the beauty of Alaska. It was Lucy’s […]
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The Alaska house
May 21st, 2015 · Comments Off on The Alaska house
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Warm days, short nights, big mosquitos
June 24th, 2013 · Comments Off on Warm days, short nights, big mosquitos
After getting our house nicely staged and hoping to attract a buyer or two, we headed up to Anchorage to visit the family and attend my 20th high school reunion. It had been many years since I’d been in Alaska right on the solstice, and the super-long days take on an interesting new dimension when […]
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Alaska 2011
September 21st, 2011 · Comments Off on Alaska 2011
We took Grace on her second trip to Alaska, and her first during the summer, over Labor Day Weekend. She had a good time seeing both my family and Aimee’s (visiting on vacation), and also discovered the world of stairs, since our house has none and my parents’ place has many. She took right to […]
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Early Christmas
December 8th, 2010 · Comments Off on Early Christmas
Part of the reason for taking advantage of California’s paternity leave again at this point in the year was so we could take Grace home for the holidays to each of our homes. We won’t be doing this every year, but we thought it would be nice to do it once. We started off with […]
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Summer officially over
August 26th, 2009 · Comments Off on Summer officially over
It’s tough to believe it’s nearly September, but here we are. So the weekend before last we were in Alaska, taking advantage of the seasonal non-stop flights on Alaska from L.A. to Anchorage, and returning for our second go at the Snow City 5k. I wasn’t as fast as I was last year, but at […]
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Alaskan August
August 17th, 2009 · Comments Off on Alaskan August
We’re in the middle of another brief, enjoyable trip to Alaska. We all ran the Snow City 5k this morning, and followed it up with a tasty lunch at the Moose’s Tooth. We’ve spent the rest of the time seeing the new sights around town – the Museum downtown, a new beer bar out our […]
Tags: Alaska · Nostalgia · Running · Travel
Winter is there
January 23rd, 2008 · Comments Off on Winter is there
And I thought 2007 was a busy travel year… We inaugurated another year of criss-crossing the globe and getting to know LAX far better than we’d like (13 trips planned in 12 months this year, up from 10 last year…) to with our now-annual January trip to Alaska. We celebrated my dad’s birthday and a […]
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GTD in Anchorage
April 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off on GTD in Anchorage
This past weekend, I had a brief but very enjoyable trip home to Anchorage. Aimee is still in Boston for her spring break, so I went back by myself, on the early flight to Anchorage via Seattle on Friday morning, getting in around 1:00 in the afternoon, and returning on the non-stop red-eye, leaving at […]
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Christmas Part II
January 14th, 2007 · Comments Off on Christmas Part II
Two and a half days is somehow both a long time and a very short time to be somewhere. Aimee and I found this out this weekend, when we traveled to Alaska to enjoy our three-day weekend with my folks amidst the snow and cold and cozy warmth of home. We enjoyedsome entertainment from Alaska […]
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Nightlife, Anchorage-Style
December 30th, 2004 · Comments Off on Nightlife, Anchorage-Style
We had an eventful day in Anchorage yesterday, as we experienced the broad range of cultural experiences and outdoor activities the city provides. We met Neil and Melanie at Snow City for lunch – mmm, salmon cake hero and reindeer sausage soup – and then went over to their new house to check out all […]
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Alaskan Cameo
December 8th, 2004 · Comments Off on Alaskan Cameo
Through the use of the TiVo (as George Michael might say, though not this one or this one), I’ve been watching the six-part series Long Way Round on Bravo over the past few months, leading up to the final episode last night. After treacherous roads and impassable rivers across Europe and Asia for five episodes, […]
Like I Never Left
July 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off on Like I Never Left
It’s been awhile, almost three weeks, and it’s a little hard to get back into the swing. There’s more doing, less contemplating while on vacation, and now that I’m back in Cambridge, it’s more of the same old day to day, leaving time to go on and on about things, like the “Kerry=Hero” graffiti which […]
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Day Four in Anchorage: Taxing
March 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off on Day Four in Anchorage: Taxing
My morning was spent performing the necessary evil that is the tax return, which, I’m embarassed to admit, was a first for me. Thanks to TurboTax, which was for the most part a really well-designed and problem-free web program, I took care of everything in a couple of hours. I’m not really sure I did […]
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