Chugach Country

In 2016, my daughter Mary and I set off across Alaska and Canada on a Great White North Adventure, which you can read about starting here. We arrived in Anchorage at the beginning of September and got home in mid-October. In retrospect, it might have made more sense to do this during the summer, since Alaska and Canada threw a mess of strange weather at us.

We started with a car that was misfiring badly. Eventually, the mechanic realized that he couldn’t fix it. Disheartened, Mary called her friends Debbie and Jason, where we were couchsurfing, to ask if we could stay another night. Jason called a mechanic friend of his for help. He offered to look at the car on Saturday afternoon.

Meanwhile, Debbie cooked up a drawing class for me on Saturday morning. We spent a few hours at Westchester Lagoon learning how to measure, about perspective, and how to draw a tree and a house. It was a beautiful distraction from car trouble.