Travels in Alaska | 
Getting the weekend started with an adult slushee and this new book from the bookstore across the street.
so-soThe writing in this book was more “practical” than eloquent and occasionally felt like a compilation of lists. In other areas, Muir‘s enthusiasm, humor, wisdom, and know-how shine through with such warmth you want him to be your next travel guide and teacher (until you realize he rarely slept and was a glutton for hard core, dangerous, excursions that scared the snot out of his companions).
This is a mantra I definitely take to heart living in Alaska.
For the past two weeks, we have been experiencing extremely dry and hot weather, which has led to several massive wildfires. The one happening closest to Anchorage has resulted in such thick haze from the smoke that the mountains have been mostly obscured in our area.
Photo yesterday taken in Talkeetna, AK.
pickIn my year of reading Canada and Alaska, nobody has written as eloquently about glaciers as John Muir. His reverence for the natural world and his fearlessness in exploring it shines through in Travels in Alaska, the book he was writing when he died in 1915. I spent some time comparing his photos to present day and some of his observed glaciers from the 1870s-1890s are only rivers now.
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Day 23: #Tours
I haven‘t read this one (yet) but I definitely would love to tour Alaska someday! It‘s been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember!
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Belated day 12 of #Riotgrams: outside! If it were July, I could have captured some better scenery from my front porch at 11:45 pm.
Adding more books to my collection while traveling through Alaska! Leading the way is the man, the myth, the legend: John Muir
