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I traveled up the Inside Passage to Alaska on my own during the summer of 2003.  Oh, this page looks cold, but the Arctic Circle was actually pushing 90 degrees!  Here are photos and notes!

Animals I Saw!

  • 15 Orca
  • ∞ Jellyish
  • 5 Harbor Seal
  • 2 Dall's Porpoise
  • 1 Porpoise
  • 4 Black Bear
  • 2 Deer
  • ∞ Bald Eagle
  • ∞ Ravens
  • 4 Moose
  • 8 Musk Ox
  • 5 Arctic Ground Squirrel
  • ∞ Carribou
  • 9 Reindeer
  • ∞ Huskies
  • ∞ 1-yr.-old Mosquitoes (the size of small buses!)
  • ∞ Black Flies (have to beat on them to kill them)
  • 2 Wolves
  • 2 Grizzly
  • 1 Marmot

 Links
  Nuxalk Nation, Bella Coola, British Columbia
  Tallheo Cannery, BC
  		 
 
Books I Read While Traveling
 
  • Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch
  • Dostoevski's White Nights, Notes from Underground, House of the Dead, Dream of a Ridiculous Man
  • Camus' The Stranger
  • Malamud's The Fixer
  • Sheldon's Bear Attacks II (I met him so had to read his book!)
  • Salinger's Catcher in the Rye
  • Clarke's Childhood's End
  • Mathiesson's Snow Leopard
  • Kerouac's On the Road
  • Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust
  • Melville's Billy Budd
  • Dickens' Tale of Two Cities