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09/18/08
I'm off tomorrow, winging eastward, to meet join a group of Bay Area people for a biking trip around Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts. We'll be cared for and guided by Backroads, the superb travel and active adventure company headquartered in the East Bay. Those coming on the trip purchased the journey at a fundraiser for the Taylor Family Foundation at its annual "Day in Park" extravaganza. The money is used to support the Foundation's important and extraordinary work to give children in need the chance to enjoy themselves for a little while at the magical Camp Arroyo near Livermore.
We'll be...
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09/04/08
I promise to stay out of politics with this little blog of mine. I have my own views, of course, but travel is non-partisan, so I'll keep it that way. But the advent of Sarah Palin has me thinking a lot about Alaska, for many years my stomping grounds.
With the exception of some extended stays in Washington, D.C., I lived in Alaska from 1973 until 1982. Most of the time, my home base was Anchorage, but my first two years were spent in Ketchikan, the southernmost town on the panhandle of Alaska, then and now a popular stop for ships cruising the Inside Passage.
Back then, Ketchikan was home to the largest pulp mill in the world. It was a logging and fishing community with a fair amount of tourism in the summer. The year-round population of Ketchikan was about...
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