Well, since I'm retired, it's kinda ALL vacation.

I just made the backcountry equivalent of the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca: my brother and I made the trip from the San Francisco area to Anchorage in the Yellowbelly Maule. Here's the links to the cool weblog Paul kept along the way.

http://silvairehair.home.comcast.net/061805/
http://silvairehair.home.comcast.net/061905/
http://silvairehair.home.comcast.net/062005/
http://silvairehair.home.comcast.net/062105/
http://silvairehair.home.comcast.net/062305/
http://silvairehair2.home.comcast.net/062405/

YB

Yellowbelly,

Great trip log! That M7 sure is a beautiful plane. The last page didn't work for me, it just went to some page that was not part of the trip log.

If you guys would like to post your weblog pages here, that would be cool.

I am jealous of a trip like that. 6 days to AK, is that right?

Zane

DOH!! Sorry Zane. I fixed the last link. Day 7 was the best one too!!

Yep, we took 7 days although it's obvious that we could have done it in 3 if everything fell just right. We stopped for weather that wasn't really that bad, but we wanted to enjoy the view, not plow thru murk. We took some stick from folks who said they drove their motorhome to AK faster than that.

Time to spare? Go by air. Enjoying a trip like that is what it's all about anyway. So cool.

jmtgt wrote:I saw those on another site. Great pics.

And which site would that have been eh? LUMB!

Hey Yellowbelly, I guess you guys are home now? How long did you stay in AK? Did you have to turn around and head straight back home?

And what kind of camera was Paul using to take those great pics?

Hey Yellowbelly, I guess you guys are home now?
And what kind of camera was Paul using to take those great pics?

Paul is the working stiff. He had to take a flight back to SFO almost as soon as we got here, but not before going up to Talkeetna to see Don Sheldon's old hangar. I, being the totally retired dude, get to stay here all summer. Planning on the return trip late July or early August. The salmon are running this weekend and we might just try our luck. Sister in law has a cabin near the foot of McKinley and we might spend a couple of days there too. I'm trying to set up a few aviation connections here to do some exploration of this incredible state. Although.... an Anchorage couple were eaten by a bear this weekend... and to think I was mostly concerned about mosquitos!

Paul has a dirt-simple Olympus that makes me jealous sometimes. I have an Olympus C5060W that took maybe 1/3 of the pix. It is now in the hospital as it suffered a brain hemorrage just before I left Australia. It managed to hang in there for the trip, but was getting pretty flaky towards the end. Still under warranty thank God.

'Laughing under my breath' Sorry, I've been doing this forum stuff for years. It's a rather obscure contraction.