Welcome to the Kenai Peninsula - 1

Welcome to the Kenai Peninsula - 1

We celebrated the 4th of July  in Whittier, another small coastal town situated at the end of a deep fjord and dubbed the “Gateway to Prince William Sound”, that’s difficult to access. The town is a stop on the Alaska Marine Highway (the ferry) route and some cruise ships, as well as the Alaska Railroad or alternately accessible via the 2.5 mile long Whittier Tunnel (Anton-Anderson Memorial Tunnel) bored through a mountain. This tunnel is the longest highway tunnel and the longest combined highway/railroad tunnel in North America.

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A Dozen Ways to Love Mother Earth All Year Long

A Dozen Ways to Love Mother Earth All Year Long

Loving Mother Earth is easy to talk about, but more difficult to do. I think most people, and that includes us, want to reduce pollution, insure clean water, reuse, re-purpose and recycle, use less energy, etc. … all the key components of making Earth a better place for us and our progeny to live. We want to do it until… well, until it’s inconvenient or it costs more or it interferes with our plans. Then we kind of conveniently forget all about it. So as another Earth Day rolls around, I thought I’d reflect on maybe trying a little bit harder in the future.

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