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8025 Interesting Facts about Alaska
Twenty five interesting facts about Alaska. The great state of Alaska is a place of startling beauty and contrasts. From the frozen tundra of the north, to the rain forests of the southeast, to the majestic mountain ranges and stunning coastlines, Alaska has it all. Nicknamed as “The Last Frontier”, Alaska has the largest expanses of pristine wilderness in the United States.
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70Alaska Eviction Help and Rental Help Agencies
When many of us think about Alaska, we think in terms of the great beauty of the frozen landscape, we think about Alaskan cruises that allow us to casually view the breathtaking, ice-filled wilderness. We also think about the months of darkness,...
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68Photographic Highlights of Alaska
Fairbanks Mt. McKinley and Denali National Park Glacier Bay Skagway What surprised me most about Alaska was the amount of water and color during the period between fall and winter. The feel of the...
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66Growing Flowers in Southeast Alaska
Southeast Alaska in located on the panhandle of Alaska and is the most southern portion of the state. Growing flowers whether they are annuals or perennials can be challenging in a temporal rain forest which is where I live. On the plus side are...
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76Map of usa with states and capitals
How well do you know your states and capitals when it comes to the subject of USA civics and geography?
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74Want To Move To Alaska?
Wonder Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska My wife and I have been plotting to get out of Texas as long as we’ve been married. Don’t get me wrong, there’s nothing wrong with Texas, and on some level Texas will always be home to us. But Texas,...
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61Alaskan Cruise
This has to be one of my favourite holidays. Cruising the Inside Passage in Alaska througn some of the worlds most amazing scenery.
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59Climbing High Above Juneau, Alaska
During my one week in Alaska in 1986, I took the Mount Roberts trail above Juneau through dense forests of sitka spruce and alder with an undergrowth of devil's club and ferns. The trail climbed steeply through tree-line at 1,500 feet. Soon I entered the foggy tundra with occasional peep holes through the mist down to Juneau Harbor. After everything became unusually silent, I sensed the coming of a storm and raced for the safety of the sitka forest and Juneau far below.
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78Sailing South from Juneau, Alaska
I anxiously awaited my fishing boat cruise out of Juneau Harbor down to Sum Dum Bay and the Taracy Arm fiord. Here we could see clear evidence of what John Muir called glacial hieroglyphics or glacial carvings in immense cliffs rising out of the fiord. We witnessed the Twin Swayers "calving" glaciers in which huge chunks of ice cracked off the glacier and crashed with thunderous noise into the fiord.
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58The Gulf - Slow to Respond
I listened with interest to a discussion of the events that preceded the abandonment of the off shore Gulf Oil Rig and I am amazed that people do not get the picture of reality. What happened? They ask. ...
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