The following are journal and calendar entries from Karen and my trip down the ALCAN Highway, leaving Ester, Alaska, and eventually reaching Caroline, Wisconsin, in October 1986. The journal entries begin prior to leaving. Karen and I took turns with the entries. Attribution is given for each entry. Information in [parenthesis like this] is included
Alright, amigos, it’s time to saddle the horse and prepare to head north. We’ve got to leave the allure of Las Vegas, New México, while we still can. This place is getting ahold of me, but I gotta go, get back to my mountain hideaway in the northern Rockies of Colorado, before it’s too
“Today, I’m going to knock around in town. It’s been a while. I had to vacate Storrie Lake [State Park Campground] because I’d been there 14 days straight (more, actually) and Manny, the Ranger, wouldn’t give me a waiver to stay longer – even though I was the only one there most of the
“Labor Day weekend. Lots of ATVs and OHVs cruising around the roads up here, and too many fishermen at the lakes and ponds when I checked yesterday, so today I’ll focus on getting a load of slash to the depot. Cleaning up this property is therapeutic for me. I hope to have the
When I was 56 years old, I realized that things were not quite working out as I had hoped they would. This was 2016. The country was finally coming out of the “Great Recession” that had dominated and decimated the economy the previous decade. I was coming out of the recession too; I just
