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- 22. January 2009: I've moved!
- 22. January 2009: Not a political piece, promise
- 19. January 2009: Getting ready to make the move
- 15. January 2009: Baby it's cold outside
- 14. January 2009: Things change
- 13. January 2009: Old Hat
- 11. January 2009: So not ready
- 10. January 2009: Getting back to the grindstone
- 6. January 2009: 2008: A review
- 28. December 2008: Oh so productive
Update from the Island
As most of you probably know this summer my Daddy accepted a new job in Alaska, very exciting, but at the same time a little un-nerving. While he is up there, Mom is at home in Lancaster, Hannah (in a few days) will be up in Davis, and I am here on the East Coast.
The past week Dad has been on the island, Adak. Which is about a 4 hour plane ride from Anchorage.He will be there for another 2 weeks getting the communication system for cell service back up and running. He has a house to stay in while he is there and plenty of food.
This morning when I checked my e-mail he had sent an update, so I thought that I would share that with you, in case you were at all curous about his new adventure!
Well I just updated flickr with some more pix so I thought I would explain what I have seen. This is an old naval base that was used from WW2 through the 90’s and was abandoned and pretty much left to rot and be looted by the locals. There are huge buildings all over just falling apart; the odd part is a lot of this stuff was just put in before it was abandoned!
There are streams with salmon all over the place but they are done spawing so they are just dying and getting eaten by the birds. The most common bird here is the eagle both bald and a japanese brown that is bigger by alomost half!
All over the island is remnents from the cold war as they stored nukes here and so there are bomb shelters all over the place.There are teams of people that come here looking for unexploded bombs as a full time job as they have been using this place for target practice as well as storing bombs here and then dumping them anywhere.
I am staying here at Larrys house, as he has one that he stays up with juice from a generator so we don’t freeze and can cook. The islanders are freindly but a bit rough around the edges as might be expected. I cooked pasta for my team the first night and then tacos last night and the tacos where a hit; as to be expected!