Since our last newsletter, we took a two week Awesome Alaskan Adventure! We took about a year to plan for this "bucket list" trip. Just like in our business, we are not like everyone else, in our personal life we are not either-we did not take a cruise.

The main purpose of our trip was to visit a fishing lodge on the Naknek River out of King Salmon. But since we were traveling so far, we decided to maximize a visit to central Alaska. We flew in and out of Anchorage and enjoyed exploring the Kenei peninsula. We hiked, floated, paddled and boated our way around towns like Cooper Landing and Seward. We went to places that few people visit each day and it was exhilarating! 

Our fishing trip was quite successful-especially for me since it was my first time! We brought home 77 lbs of king and sockeye salmon.  Our favorite day started with a float plane ride to "Postcard Lake" and a mile hike across the tundra to Contact Creek in the backcountry wilderness of Katmai National Park. Within 10 minutes Bill caught his first fish and we saw our first grizzly cross the creek about 50 feet away. We caught so many fish it was awesome and we got to see four grizzly bears including one that crossed the creek about 20 feet across from us. We then hiked out one of the bear trails, across the tundra for about 45 minutes to be picked up by the float plane on a larger lake to fly back to the lodge. 

Stayed tuned. I'll be doing blog posts about our trip with photos and observations of Alaska.

p.s. You can watch the live cam of the bears "fishing" in the Brooks Falls.

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