We decided not to take the Alcan home for two reasons: we wanted a change of pace, and we were told by the crazy parking lot attendant in McCarthy to visit the Alaskan town of Hyder to get “Hyderized”. He brought up getting “hyderized” with such excitement the moment we told we had driven up [...]
On our way home we decided to take a long detour through Haines and Skagway. Even though they are only 17 miles apart no road connects them, so we had to take a short ferry ride on the “Marine Highway” which we felt our Alaska trip had been missing. I was familiar with the names [...]
We got off of the Pinnell Trail a day before the Tyrrells were due back from Fairbanks, so we went to the Central Bar. Naturally :). We only intended to have a couple of drinks, but as Rick would later warn us: you always just stop into the bar “for a couple”, and always come [...]
The first thing we checked out in Homer was the “Spit”, the thin strip of land jutting out into Kachemak Bay which hosts the dock and tourist area of Homer. We saw some smaller halibut (”chicken” halibut) some sport fishermen had just brought in and watching a local guy teaching his daughter to fish land [...]
