Alaskan Adventure
After an exhausting move from Venice to my new, super sweet and QUIET place in Playa Del Rey (it has been ages since I've had a good living situation), the plan was to get in the car and go to Burning Man. But when the time came, I couldn't bring myself to even think about packing for it, driving all the way out there, staking down my tent with rebar etcetera. It just sounded like way too much work. I heard from people later that it was a frat fest and that someone burned the "man" on the second day so I'm glad I wasn't out there with a buncha cranky hippies, haha.
So instead, I went to Anchorage to visit one of my best friends from college, Amy. It's probably been about 6 years since we've seen each other. It was so ridiculously fun. Neither of us have lost our sense of humor so it was pretty much a laugh marathon for the 5 days I was there. We went mountain biking through a place called Hatcher's Pass, went to another spot called Frontage, hiked up to Exit Glacier (holy cow!), and saw a drag show that was in town from Vegas which was really hilarious and random. Cher, Gwen Stefani, and Barbara Streisand were the drag celebs - so funny. One day we took a tram up to Alyeska, a ski resort in the winter, a huge grassy mountain in August. We were laughing about something as it came to a stop and this foreign woman yelled "shut up!" at us. We turned around and looked at her and she was like "I'm trying to hear what the (tram conductor) was saying" which was nothing except for "here we are at the top." Of course this just made us laugh harder and became a running joke the whole entire time I was there (i.e. "my ears just popped and I told'em to 'shuuut up!'"). We layed on the tundra and laughed our asses off about it forever.
Amy's fiance hunts and so I got to try some caribou sausage which is sooo yummy. I also ate the freshest salmon I've ever had in my life. They're a great couple. Brad definitely a good match for her. It makes me happy to see her doing so well. I'm going to go back up there next June 21st (summer solstice) for the wedding.
So instead, I went to Anchorage to visit one of my best friends from college, Amy. It's probably been about 6 years since we've seen each other. It was so ridiculously fun. Neither of us have lost our sense of humor so it was pretty much a laugh marathon for the 5 days I was there. We went mountain biking through a place called Hatcher's Pass, went to another spot called Frontage, hiked up to Exit Glacier (holy cow!), and saw a drag show that was in town from Vegas which was really hilarious and random. Cher, Gwen Stefani, and Barbara Streisand were the drag celebs - so funny. One day we took a tram up to Alyeska, a ski resort in the winter, a huge grassy mountain in August. We were laughing about something as it came to a stop and this foreign woman yelled "shut up!" at us. We turned around and looked at her and she was like "I'm trying to hear what the (tram conductor) was saying" which was nothing except for "here we are at the top." Of course this just made us laugh harder and became a running joke the whole entire time I was there (i.e. "my ears just popped and I told'em to 'shuuut up!'"). We layed on the tundra and laughed our asses off about it forever.
Amy's fiance hunts and so I got to try some caribou sausage which is sooo yummy. I also ate the freshest salmon I've ever had in my life. They're a great couple. Brad definitely a good match for her. It makes me happy to see her doing so well. I'm going to go back up there next June 21st (summer solstice) for the wedding.