Posted: 8/12/2006 7:04:15 PM EDT
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You know, I have been all around the US, and I thought I had seen some wild places... But Alaska is totally different. It's truly the wilderness. It's isolation on a scale I haven't ever experienced before. This is a place where, if you screw up, you die. No one's going to hold your hand or step in and save your ass. What an incredible feeling. I have got to come back here. |
That's why up here, if you go into the woods you bring a gun. .44 MAG at the minimum. |
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Hi RikWriter You are having the same feelings that I had (and still do) when I got to Alaska. I packed up and moved up here without a test visit or a job or knowing any Alaskans. My move up here was the best thing I ever did. After 12 years, I still love this place. You sound like Alaska could be the place for you. You should try to come back during winter. Then if you think Alaska is the place. Join us. Edit to add : Just read "Alaska Pics" thread reply. About how you feel about our winters. No Harm, Alaska's not for everyone. Ripak Be Safe Have Fun |
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I hope you are having fun up here. It is true that it isn't a place for everyone. I have been really a dick to tourists lately. Stupid fux waiting all day in the Depot, waiting on the train and complaining about being bored. I am sick of them. I especially hate the ones who take a cruise up here and go back home and act as if they somehow conquered the Mighty State of Alaska while playing slots and drinking free martinis until they puked. The wastes of skin that come up here just so they can go home and brag about being to Alaska are particularly worthy of my loathing. I just do not get the feeble mindset it takes to go out and spent thousands of dollars on a vacation, goto one of the wildest places on Earth and just fucking sit around and bitch about it. If you ever find yourself bored out of your mind while on vacation, it is YOUR FUCKING FAULT...not mine. I want to scream at them while they sit and whine for hours on end. Across the street is one of the most diverse and busy harbors that I know of, catering to traffic from large fishing vessels to small pleasure craft and it is always filled with fishermen returning with their catch, sea lions, otters, eagles, etc. Even I, whom have live in Alaska am never bored with it, yet somehow it is beneath the efforts of the fat cunt on the motorized lard cruiser chair to bother with such things. The Balding doofus that asked if he could board the train 4 hours before departure because he and his shamuish wife were bored with sitting inside the train depot brought forth my ire in a way as such that I was nearly unable to contain my wrath, especially when he expressed his disdain for me not allowing him to get on the train, as if it is somehow our responsibility to entertain him. I can only hope that he continues to live out his pitiful life and remains a prime example to all as to what a complete and total failure as a human being looks and acts like. It is people like him that constantly serve as a reminder to me. Luckily it appears that this middle aged flop and his spouse of immense proportions were unable to pollute the gene pool with their foul biological ooze. I swear that if everyone from the states were of such small minds I would be actively working for secession. It is bad enough when I goto my wife's hometown and meet people there have never crossed the county line, much less left Ohio, and feel constrained by the crushing claustrophobia that seems to grip small mind America, but to see people go so far as to take a step away from the safety of their la-z-boyz and home theaters and still remain stuck in their small little worlds, I have not the words. It is like they are afraid.
..........in that case, welcome home... |
Well then... I think you need to kick back,  , and be   (As much as I dislike tourists and the lack of respect they have, not to mention their whiny attitudes and the fact that they think they can come here and invade our towns, taking up every square inch of our lakes (inside and out) with their #%@*!&$ RVs and then run their rented ATVs all though the trails turning them to shit.... AND do it all summer not allowing us the use of our own land for even a moment! Ugh, I am so sick of asshole tourists like that. Man, you really got me started on this! I just gotta stop before I have a heart attack, that's all there is to it.) Rikwriter.... He seems like just the opposite of those kind of people. So, don't take what I said personally. |
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Oh, I forgot you were coming up here Rik. Glad you liked it. As for understanding how unforgiving Alasak can be for the unprepared, do check out Sean Penn's paean to a guy who didn't have your common sense www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/ Many people from the lower 48 consider this guy a tragic hero. Alaskans consider him an idiot. |
Some of the scenery there is like your on another planet, truely spectacular. Also some pretty tough people up there. |
Sounds like my inlaws...who live in an armpit state on the east coast...They came here for two weeks. I live next to a small town in a scenic high desert and next to the foot of the Boise and Sawtooth National Forrests. Canyons, rivers, creeks, lakes, resevoirs, hotsprings... It's one of the most incredible places on earth. I offered to take them camping..see the mountains, the desert canyons all on my dime.... "But where are we going to go to the bathroom" (Never taken a shit out in the woods or in a pit toilet in their lives) "Do they have any tourist towns where we can buy souveniers" (I don't know of any as I never looked for them, nor do I care to go where the tourists hang out) To make it short...they went to Boise every other day to go shopping  On second thought..I am glad people actually hate this place...more for me  |