Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Aftermath

So, a few weeks after two trips, (sans blogging!), I'm back home now and ready to take account of recent travel and share for those interested parties. It's the last week of the school quarter too, which I'm looking forward to ending desparately! I would love some lazy time off to go exploring and catch up with new AK friends.

Regarding my last post, I must share that the clothes taken with me all worked out very well, should I have been able to end the trip as scheduled. HOWEVER, we ran into some weather delays coming home & were camped out in Anchorage, (not a bad place to be stranded, it's basically a hippy version of the South end of Seattle), so I obviously ran out of clean clothes but thankfully had workout clothes I never used, (I don't know why I pretend I'll be working out on a vacation, silly me!), so there I was; wearing work out gear all over town as the husbo and I tried to make the best of our extended vacation.

He had a high school friend living in Anchorage who was very entertaining in an eccentric way to say that least, that showed us around town and recounted his crazy travels over dinner and drinks. He is apparently so wealthy he doesn't need to work, (imagine the life!), but instead of living in the lap of luxury, he travels in the most meager states just for the life experience and chance to meet (hopefully) strange and charming people, like himself! He didn't even own a cell phone, that's how kooky he was! Very sweet guy though, reminded me of Jack Kerouac in a lost but old soul kind of way.

Once we got back, we decided one trip to Anchorage in a couple weeks isn't enough, (plus we had to get our truck serviced), so we made a date to drive out to Anchorage again to celebrate the husbo's 35th beeday and get some errands and Costco shopping done. It was really a fun and memorable weekend. Lots of boozing, eating, giggling, quibbling and driving. I love a good road trip! We tried a couple new restaurants we fell in love with, one a hippie crowd-health food cafe which I loved, (I miss Seattle did I mention!), and one a schmancy top of a hotel seafood restaurant for his birthday dinner, both wonderful and will be visited again on future travels.

All in all, it's been a great few weeks. I'm looking forward to some sun and family time on an upcoming trip to Hawaii and will probably blog again about more packing issues!

Stay healthy! xoxo