ArchiveAugust 2023

The Wilderness Legacy was our boat/ship home (when does a boat become a ship?) during our week in Southeast Alaska. The captain, a veteran of 35+ years of piloting had an open-door policy for his command post, which we didn’t get around to cashing in on until our last full day onboard. Fortunately, we had chosen a moment when the boat was anchored, so the captain (whose name any good journalist...

I’m back from our intense week in Alaska. There are so many different angles from which to approach writing about the experience, so I’m guessing that it’s going to take a couple of postings to work through it all. Let me begin briefly at the very end. I had what I thought was a good old-fashioned cold shipboard but testing on our return indicated that Rosellen and I had very mild COVID. I’m...