reika wrote:
hi, thannks for the lunar eclispe info have allready decided where to drive to watch it w/in 10 miles of anchorage theres no light pollution. Watched the one in 2000 in a hot tub at cheena hot springs, w/ my other daughter (the NT one ...i think) holding my long hair out straight to see if it would stay.( It would) It was like 40 below or something. It was very cool. I think theres only a little over half a million people in the state and half of them live w/in a 60 mile radius of anchorage. so you have like 2 of the 3 biggest towns in the radius. wasilla/palmer being the other one. people here are all really nice, they say it takes a certain kind of person to want to live here, everyone is VERY accepting of others differences,and we try to help each other when we can. I think it's cause theres so few of us and you know that w/out each other you really could die if you broke down in the middle of winter in the middle of nowhere and no one stopped to help you. I'v lived all over (23 states)and in germany (joined the army to get there, made it 11mos and 4 days befor i got out "Honorably"HATED IT!!!Top SSG used to yell at, scream in my face rather, "Your the true individualist and don't belong in this man's Army!! !" (I took it as a compliment which made him madder,)and I'd tell him "Your right,let me out, i'v seen Europe now, it's great , it's beautiful, but you guys suck and I want out." laughed in my Drill SSG face all the time in Basic. I really did not fit in, which is nothing new for me. O.K. i'm "typing your eyes out again" when i read your post Lau I called my daughter and said "I'v found my people" She always gives me a hard time in a nice way cause I like PBS and calls me a science geek, (I take that as a compliment also) I love physics and astronomy, shes 20 now (The NT one) she had to help me with my avatar cause i'm so computer illiterate. shes a good kid. will read more when I get home from work. Fine Dining Server at a really great (5 star chef, best boss in my life offered to co-sign for my car cause he knows I have noone) Italian Restaraunt.called Villa Nova..o.k. my autistic daughter (the 6 year old) wants the computer and it is her turn bye
Alaska!! !

I'm definitely going to go there some day - hike it on my own, take my time - none of the regular tourist stops. Hopefully I will never see a town.