Oh, Misery

You should be reading Alaska, Part !! right now, but due to an unfortunate incidenct with a dog's tail and a glass of water, my Mac isn't turning on. We're taking the little dear to be fixed (although with turnaround times at 7 days, and our plan to be on a ferry 7 days from now, we're not sure how well it will work out). In the meantime, we'll try to post from other computers. Unfortunately, there were two posts pre-written that we were going to put up this morning -- about our experiences in Chicken and Denali National Park. We'll just have to stick em up when we get the computer running again. Sorry, guys. We continue to be lame.

In travel news: we're leaving Anchorage today, I think, and heading to the Kenai Peninsula. Then we'll sweep back through Anchor Town for a climb with a friend of ours (on balet!), and then head east toward the Wrangell St. Elias National Park (the largest in Alaska, supposedly even wilder than Denali). Then back down to BC via the Cassiar, to get on a ferry from Prince Rupert to Port Hardy (on Vancouver Island). From there, we're heading to the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State, to camp on the Pacific Coast (September 11-13). Then, hopefully, to Seattle for a few days, and finally to Spokane to visit with my family (hopefully, my mom will be flying out for a week of visiting as well) on or around September 17. That's the general schedule. Let us know if you're in any of these areas over the next few weeks.