Mosquitoes - Alaska’s State Bird
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The official state bird may be the ptarmigan, but any old-timer will tell you that’s just to prevent scaring the tourists away - it’s really the mosquito…
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Another Detour - Haines, Alaska
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We were back on the Alaska Highway in Tok (rhymes with poke), Alaska and the obvious thing to do was to either head north to Fairbanks or west to Anchorage, but… there’s always a ‘but’. I’d recently read a brochure about Haines, Alaska… another pene-exclave community about 438 miles south… way out of the way, BUT it was on the Lynn Canal (the longest and deepest fjord in North America), it looked like a very picturesque community AND we could possibly catch an express catamaran sightseeing trip to Juneau from there. Why not?
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The hours lingered on. More cars, RVs, semis, and vans joined the queue. We’d go out and check the river, talk with fellow travels (Do you think the water’s going down?) and come back to Blanche to read or write for a while longer. We had lunch, then dinner, then popcorn. By around 10PM, we were pretty convinced that we weren’t going anywhere this night.
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