July 24, 2004
Coming Soon!
Thanks in equal parts to the admiration for the cool way Todd Dominey blended the Flash golf course tour into the PGA website, and the desire to add another tool to my arsenal, I've bitten the bullet and ordered Flash. Another toy in the box, oh boy! Gotta go now - I think I heard the UPS truck...
July 10, 2004
Back from Alaska, and it was great. I got some of the Glacier splendor I wanted, though not as much as I expected. There were two big fires around Fairbanks, and the smoke was so bad in Denali the first two days that I wasn't really sure if Alaska even had mountains. Then a day of rain washed things out and left the rest of our stay beautiful.
The thumbnail is from one of the Alaskan cultural events we stumbled on - the Northern Exposure factor I was hoping for, if you will. The story goes like this: Twenty years ago, the Alaska Railroad built a bridge across the Nenana river at the town of Ferry. Ferry was called that because the river ran through the town, and without a bridge, the ferry was indespensible. The townsfolk of Ferry were therefore elated at the new ARR bridge, and soon began using it as their own. The folks at the railroad saw an inherent danger in this, and in an effort to disuade the towns folks, embedded nails in the ties on the bridge to make automobile passage impossible. The Ferry folks in turn placed boards over the nails and continued using the bridge. As the efforts escalated, the railroad finally got a court injunction, and the folks of Ferry lost the use of the bridge for good. As a protest, every year since then (nineteen so far) on 4th of July, the citizens of Ferry (all 29 of them) line up along the tracks and moon the passenger trains of the Alaska Railroad as they pass through town. Ya gotta love traditions.