Of Boats, Birdhouses and the Man of Stihl
Picking up where I last left off, I hire a local logger, George Rice, who loves to fell trees. He shows up with two huge Stihl chainsaws, a maul and several wedges and gets to work. The largest tree is tied to two others in one huge root-ball towering about...
Back North and the Big Blowdown
It’s time to return to Alaska again–to destruction, frozen pipes and this time uprooted trees–lots of them. We had an Easter storm that even the Easter bunny couldn’t stand. Move over Punxsutawney Phil……. It’s good-bye to...
The Long Drive South
My fall departure began with a northbound ferry trip to Haines (from Petersburg) with my Tundra on the car deck of the Kennecott ferry. It was a two night stay because of a stops in Sitka and Juneau. Dental School classmate Dennis Welch accompanied on the trip to...
Stefano’s Sitka Shipwrecks
A friend near Rome, Stefano Benazzo, has written four books on shipwrecks on this planet and wants to write a fifth about Alaska’s wrecks. This is not an easy task as just the SE panhandle of Alaska has as much coastline as all of Italy. During my last trip to...