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This is one of the many reasons that I love living in Haines, AK.

Oberhalsie goat
Posted: 2008-04-19
Contact: 766-XXXX
Price: $100
Description: Prime breeding age Oberhalsie goat. This goat has a great personality, and is for sale to a very good home.

so classic.

Home Sweet Home

For the last few weeks I have been totally consumed with working on getting the thesis ready and getting ready for my last conference here at Minnesota State. The thesis is over and approved (yay!) and the conference is next week, and everything is going to plan. So now that things have settled down my mind is starting to have some free space to think about a moving to AK.

I talked to the boys out in UT and it sounds like housing options are pretty slim in Haines this year. I'm still looking around for something a little more stable but for now, it looks like this is going to be home base for the summer.

It's going to be tight, but at least its cheap! Something else might come up, but if it doesn't at least I have something that is relatively warm and dry to spend the time in when I'm not in a tent in the backcountry.

5 Weeks Out

Sorry the posts are a bit sparse, there isn't that much exciting going on with relevance to AK just yet.

I'm heading north in 5 weeks, which is really exciting. Andy (a friend of mine from grad school) is going to work for a youth wilderness program in Wrangell, AK, so he is going to drive with me to Haines, and then head down to Wrangell from there. It's going to be really nice to have someone to split the driving with. Plus, it's just going to be nice to have someone else with me along the Alcan. There were times last year where I realized that I was a female traveling alone along really isolated roads and I wondered if that should potentially concern me.

Andy and I plan on leaving Mankato on May 11th and we should hit the Alcan on the 13th and be in Haines by the 15th.

I'm still trying to figure out housing for the summer since it sounds like I'm going to be in town a little bit more than I was last season, which means more time to experience Haines and more time to update the blog! (Which means you have more opportunities to procrastinate reading it instead of doing more productive things on the internet..... like checking facebook.....)


In other news: I passed my thesis defense! So the two years of hard work wasn't for nothing and I get to graduate! I'm really ready to be done with studying for a while and to be back in the field working with students.

Thats all for now, stay tuned!