ITTOG.....Kicker is great ! He's my favorite member of that team (he rarely speaks).....
Regarding Alaska I worked for a private contractor establishing & setting monuments. Every monument set required an area to be established large enough for a helicopter landing. We also marked (3) bearing trees for every monument set. I worked on another project while living there which entailed the cutting & marking of a portion of the northern boundary of Denali National Park.....
tikirob.....sure I do understand your point but on the flip side the people that maintain VLOGs must put an incredible amount of time & energy into their products. I enjoy many VLOGs on YouTube (I have no TV) and it's always free. Once a week I watch a Dirt Sunrise video (I love their videos ! ).....always free ! I can't help but wonder the number of hours that Tim & Kelsey put into their VLOG.....times have changed and I'm trying to change too.....
blanketslayer.....Canada & Alaska are still amazing places to explore.....we may head north ourselves this summer depending on Covid-19. Don't let me rain on your parade.....you will love it.....
Arjan.....thank you.....?.....
tgil & PNWY.....be careful what you wish for ! I can go on forever.....
JD.....I am computer illiterate.....
Sierra Valley.....here's a few more memories.....
My first trip overseas.....I was barely out of high school but I had already been dreaming for years about seeing the world. I can remember as a young boy going to the bank with my mom and she'd be with the teller while I sat in the lobby scanning those National Geographic magazines. I'd leave that bank in my own little world dreaming about that day that I too could see the world.....
Every penny I earned I tried to save.....I was still broke when I hit the road. It was the goodwill of strangers along the road that enabled me to live out my dream. Hitchhiking back then was much more accepted as a normal practice than it is in the world that we live in today. So I stood on the side of the interstate with my thumb stuck up in the air.....I'm sure I was apprehensive yet I'm sure I was filled with excitement as well.....
Of course I couldn't hitchhike to South America so I purchased a plane ticket which took me from Miami, Florida to Caracas, Venezuela. As I recall it, it took me about a week of hitching rides on the interstate, camping in my tent at night, to make it to Miami, Florida. I stayed with a friend there until my flight took me further south.....to South America !
Again, I have few photographs available.....it was slides back then. I remember hitching rides across Venezuela.....meeting people that I could barely speak with.....seeing places that before were only seen in magazines.....
I remember back then camping for days on a remote beach on Margarita Island off the coast of Venezuela (I think it's no longer remote). I'm surprised that I ever left that island paradise but the road has always called to me.....
I crisscrossed Venezuela, then headed for the Andes Mountains in Colombia.....what a beautiful world it was.....
After exploring Colombia I took a flight to Panama next and after Panama I returned to the United States. I could go on & on but I'll spare you the details. I left with little and I came back a rich man. It would be my first deposit into the Bank of Exploration but not nearly my last. My first memories of travel were special and they were all mine.....
Those were the days my friends.....
