so i guess the most obvious (except to me) way to begin telling about my adventures in alaska is at the beginning. where is the beginning? drinking cheap wine with friends. but we'll skip that part to the part where i actually go somewhere.
so we left on the 14th of june in rain, and began our drive to seattle. it was a very long drive, with very little showering and lots of being cramped up in a small car. but we got to see a lot of fabulous country along I-90, and we didn't kill each other, which was always a plus.
blah blah blah, stuff stuff stuff.
so anyway, we stay in tacoma with melody's family, who have an amazing view of ranier from their deck, and the next day we go to the airport. apparantly a million people are trying to fly alaska airlines out of seatac that day, because we had to wait in line forever. we tried to do the self-check, but there was something wrong with our tickets that way and couldn't. so we waited...and waited...and managed to not miss our flight.
then we flew, which is not usually very memorable, and got to anchorage after seeing lots of mountains from the plane. bought about 20 postcards and then flew on a little prop plane to king salmon with some other people going to work at ags. when we landed, discovered that the mosquitos were trying to kill us and that there really aren't any mountains that you can see from that area. sadness!
rode on a bus to naknek, where the driver kept saying how everyone was thinking it was going to be a really good season based on the cotton plants--ha! what a joke that turned out to be. anyway, picked out our bunk, hung out, and had our first ags meal. that was the beginning of a week of doing nothing but hanging around naknek. which will make a great installment two!
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