MY ALASKA:FIRST IMPRESSIONS
Photos provided by Upsplash After recently seeing a young Alaskan girl, Lydia Jacoby win the 100m breaststroke gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics I was instantly reminded of the time I spend in Anchorage. I was stationed at Fort Richardson back in 1984 and how I was surprised to see that the land I had imaged was nowhere near what came to my mind before I’d arrived there. All set to live in an Igloo this was not to be the case at all. Of course it was very cold and the sky seem to be in a constant state of overcast. No surprises there being that Alaska is mostly nine months of winter and three months of summer. One man I meet in Fairbanks said he’d been there most of his adult life and that the climate was something you never get use to. That appeared to be true for me as well. I seemed to never know when day began and when nighttime started. All this is relative to this story which will emphasis my first encounters to this land they called The Last Frontier. First, the Great Al