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Hometown:: Near Pittsfield, Massachusetts

About Me:: Born in Massachusetts I have traveled a lot and moved to Alaska 7 years ago just to "try it out". Have not left yet!

Last Seasonal Job:: Tour rep (tourist herder!) for a marine tour company in Alaska

Favorite Seasonal Job:: Fish species census work in Belize

Dream Job:: Working at a resort with Caribbean beach diving from the front porch and downhill skiing off the back porch!

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Construction outside my window

Well folks - here is the view from my window on Friday, Feb 8. The city of KTN did a survey of the dock at the water front and found that a lot o…

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Posted on February 8th, 2008 at 1:31pm — 1 Comment

Wonderful Surpise

A little over a week ago, the residents of KTN were given a wonderful gift. It was a little past 5pm on Saturday night and my husband & I were driving home from doing some shopping. As we came around the corner my husband said "I just saw fireworks above Deer Mountain!". Deer Mt is the beautiful peak that to…

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Posted on February 1st, 2008 at 3:26pm —

Winter social season

Well we have had a wonderful batch of weather the last week or so. We have had a mix of gorgeous sunny days with 25 – 30 degree weather then a day or two of slushy snow. The photo shows you a nice sunny morning. This was taken about…

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Posted on January 21st, 2008 at 9:30am —

New year - new blog

The view from my window - Ketchikan, Alaska today.
Ketchikan is a town whose number one industry is tourism. In the summer season (mid-April thru early October) the place is bustling with locals and "summer folks" showing almost 900,000 visitors what the town has to offer. They say that in Ketchikan 1 in 7 jobs is direct…

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Posted on January 8th, 2008 at 2:28pm —

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At 9:10pm on February 10th, 2008, Timothy Green said…: Yeah I'm really looking forward to working there. Right now I'm trying to save up some money for the 4000 mile drive and for my first month's rent/living expenses. Do you know of anyone who's going to be needing a house mate in that area? As of right now my job has housing available, but I'm not really into sharing a room with someone I don't know, yet alone a 5 BR house with 10+ people.
Or is that typical of the living situation in Ketchikan?

At 9:31pm on February 5th, 2008, Timothy Green said…: I loved the fire works. Whats cool is I'm going to be working in Ketchikan this summer at the canopy tour guide place. I didn't know you lived there, but knowing that makes me feel all the better about blindly driving the near 4000 miles to get there. Just meeting someone else on Coolworks who lives/works in the same place that I'll be makes me feel...I don't know, safe I guess. I'd love to know more about Ketchikan if you get the chance. I like rock climbing and mountain biking. The fact that you ski in you back yard says loads about the place.

At 3:37pm on January 8th, 2008, Whale Junkie said…: Tiny bubbles........in the water.....

At 5:25pm on November 17th, 2007, Nick Burns said…: The nearest boxing gym is an hour away I might sign up for my days off, but I'll probably spend them falling down mountains once I start snowboarding or skiing. Have a good Thanksgiving.

At 3:40pm on November 9th, 2007, Kari Quaas said…: Ketchikan is a great little town. I used to work for Princess Tours so I went up a few times for work and really enjoyed it. My highlight though was kayaking around Tatoosh Islands in May of this year. Loved it.

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