My favorite John Muir quote (don’t remember where I read it) advises, “Don’t go to Alaska when you are young, it will ruin you for life.” I’m not young any more but I see what he was getting at. I read his book, Travels in Alaska, when I was in Nome three years ago. When our family started talking about an Alaska cruise, I was ready to go back. Even though I don’t consider myself a cruise person.
(more…)Nome is justifiably proud of its gold mining heritage and the story of The Three Lucky Swedes. Gold mining is still going on today, though not so much during the winter months.
In March the big stories are high school basketball tournaments and the Iditarod.
The story of my 2023 Alaskan adventure began in 2018 when I accidentally ran into KICY radio station manager Patty Burchell at the Urbana Student Missions Conference.
We had a conversation about radio and before I knew it I had sort-of volunteered to help out the radio station in Nome when they are short-staffed during March high school basketball tournament time.
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