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Alaskan Burrito Quest 2005, Page 2
Alaskan Burrito Quest 2005, Page 2
Alaska Highway
Joined the Alaska Highway at mile 0, in Dawson Creek, BC,
and got off in Tok, AK 1,314 miles down the road. The
directions were thus not complicated, and I only got lost
a few times.
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| | Start of the Alaska Hwy at Dawson Creek, BC
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Alaska
Finally reached the Alaska border on Sep 2. The US border guard
noted that his computer reported me as having entered Canada
with 1 passenger, who was now nowhere to be found. He used his
DHS-trained mind powers to try to trick me into a confession,
but once I was able to convince him that I hadn't murdered
my passenger, dumped her body, and then fled to Alaska
(Angelique had actually flown home from Calgary a few days
earlier), the border crossing proceeded without a hitch.
This self-portrait took like 50 tries. If only I had longer
arms, or had remembered to bring a gorilla...
Trying to walk around the shallow parts of the Copper River
to get closer, I nearly sank into saturated, silty mud taking
these pictures, and had a brief panicked vision of myself sinking
without a trace, disappearing with no witnesses, my car found
mysteriously abandoned 4000 miles from home. As it turns out,
I wasn't actually wholly sucked down into oblivion, but I did
get my shoes really muddy (a danger, I've found, of expedition
in general).
Moose Pass, AK at Mach .1
Spent a few days in Moose Pass going to "seaplane pilot boot camp".
Having already proven to be a disciplinary case, I went "flight-seeing"
around the area, gawking at mountains and glaciers and trying to
spot critters, goofing off when I was supposed to be training,
Trying to fly the plane, take pictures, and spot wildlife
on the slopes. Learned to look for tiny black
splotches (black bears) and tiny white splotches
which look either round (sheep) or boxy (mountain goats).
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| | "Artie", black bear (or possibly a wild hyphen)
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| | "Rob", "K.K.", mountain goats (or maybe just dryer lint, hard to tell from this distance)
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Anchorage
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| | "Aretha", semi-urban Kincaid Park moose
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Taco Bell #50
The completion of my life's work.
Continue to Page 3.
Harry Mantakos /
harry@meretrix.com
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