Travel Thursday

After returning to my blog for the first time in the better part of a year I realized that there are a few things I wanted to change and a few that I wanted to stay the same. 

Travel has always been important to me and, because I didn't blog while I was actually traveling to all of the awesome places I have gotten to go over the past year-ish, I will continue Travel Thursdays (at least until I run out of those places).

Stop One: South East Alaska:

When I first got the job I was told that I would spend the summer in Alaska and then travel with the boat down to Costa Rica and Panama.  My first thought was that Alaska didn't sound all that interesting or exotic but that spending some time there would be worth getting to travel down to Central America.  When I got to Southeast Alaska that thought was blown way out of the water.  There is no other place in the world like Southeast Alaska.  The wildlife, the natural beauty and simply the grand scale of it all are like nowhere else and, ironically enough, I've missed it more and felt greater ownership of it than anywhere else I've ever been.  This is the first and last post I wrote after I got on the boat and it pretty much describes how I felt about Alaska for the whole of the two months I was there from day one until the season was over.

  Here are a few of the photos I took there that might convince any of you that might be Alaska skeptics (like I used to be).

Happy Trails!