LAST DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TODAY IS MY LAST DAY OF WORK FOR THE NEXT 6 MONTHS!!!!!


YIPPEE SKIPPEE!!!!!!!!!



STAY TUNED FOR THE ADVENTURES OF MY TRIP HOME !!!!!!!!!!!


I PROMISE LOTS OF PICTURES!!!!!!!

Weekend Update

Not to much to report about my weekend.

On Friday I went to a wedding of a girl who works here at AFS, I don't really know her but everyone at work convinced me to go. It ended up being a fun time. It was a nice simple wedding in total Alaskan style. People drinking beer and wine before and during the ceremony. Not to many people there, where whatever you want kind of thing. Nice and simple. After the reception a bunch of us headed out to a bar in fairbanks and proceeded to stay out way to late

Sat: was spent saying bye to people and going for coffee at 1:30 in the afternoon, coming back to base and having security tell us to have a good evening and all of us thinking that the day had barely started. After awhile we decided that dinner was needed and headed over to an italian resturant which was good but over priced. Once we got back to the barracks we had a small hall party

Sun: I got up way early to drive my friend Dale to the airport for his flight back to South Dakota, I came home and went back to sleep for a while and then headed out to brunch. it is amazing how whenever I go out to brunch with people from work how we make it into an all day affair. we where at brunch from 11-2. later in the evening I finished the hat that I had been knitting.


now it is back to work. just waiting til the end of the week to get laid off. nothing to excitin

My ride home

well i did it a purchased a ferry ticket to get me part of the way back to the lower 48. On October 5th I am going to jump on the ferry in Haine's Ak and ride down to Prince Rupert B.C after that I am either going to drive or to take the B.C ferry to Vancouver island....only one piece at a time

Stuff

So every year around the time that I go to move to or from work I realize that I have a lot of stuff, I think about how much of the stuff that I own I never use....and I think that I should get rid of it, problem is that I can never part with some of the stuff that I have because I do use it from time to time.

Today for example I was going thru bins of stuff that I have here in AK and realized that I didn't even realize that I had that stuff here with me, the thing it is that I used it all winter so I brought it with me to Alaska....and then never really needed it.


Then there is also the fact that I spent the last month living out of one bag that had 3 work t- shirts, 2 non work shirts, 2 pair of work pants, 2 pair of non work pants, one that can be turned into capris, a sweatshirt, down jacket and maybe a couple of other misc things......so why really do I need all this stuff!!

So my goal is to not buy as much stuff, I don't think that it will actually happen but we will see. I just like having stuff even though some of it sits for 6 months of the year.

end of season

so the end of my fire season is nearing, this is the earliest that I have ever been done with a season, it is a little weird for me to be done this early but I am not going to complain.

the hard thing is that now that I have a general idea of when I am done working I have to decide what I want to do when I am done. I am pondering a couple of different possibilities. I definitely want to go and explore some of alaska before I head back home but I am not sure where i want to go. I had a plan to take the ferry down thru the southeast passage but when I started looking into that I realized that alot of them were already booked. I could get part of the way to Washington but not the rest.....so now i have to reasearch it more. I could bum around until there is space on a ferry but who knows when that may be and I am not sure I want to be bumming around for that long....to many decisions and I hate decisions.....help me decide where in Alaska I should go before I head home for the winter

im alive

I know that you were all wondering if I had fallen off the face of the planet, but nope Im alive.

I am back in Ak, I just got back after spending another month down there in CA working on a helicopter module. I will write more about that later


now I am back to work it is definitely fall here with lots color on the leaves. I will most likely be working for the next two weeks and will then get laid off and then I dont know what the plan is going to be after that.

well I just wanted to let everyone know that I am back and now have computer access.