Greetings
It’s another Monday afternoon (morning for me) inbox-surprise to make Monday brighter…. well, at least I hope. If not, may these Halibut Fishing pictures will brighten your day. Make sure and read this week’s Alaska facts. I’m sure it will make you want to move up north forever.
The Short:

The pastor is back (he’s an Aggie so devout…

It takes on average 28 hours of fishing to catch a King Salmon on the Kenai and Kasilof rivers in Alaska. I feel sorry for the 4 people who will have to fish 60 hours to even out the success of our trip in June 2006.

Friends!
Not too much to say, but a lot to show. I went fishing for King Salmon, and I caught a beauty. A story will follow. The youth group went on a hike in the rain, and I’ve been loving every Mavericks…

Howdy, howdy
Wow, I have now been here exactly one week! Hard to believe it, but you can see it (pardon the hazy pictures… it’s not pollution, just smoke from forest fires). This promises to be the longest (most important?) e-mail of the summer. But to appease everyone, I’ve separated it into two sections, a short and long.
The Short:…

Mistake #1. Hiking Alone. Mistakes 2-10: Going alone, forgetting a sleeping bag, forgetting food, forgetting something for blisters, not looking at the map until lost, not wearing any bug repellent, hiking in thorns, swimming with spiders, sleeping with raccoons, and oh yes going alone.