Getting Into and out of Alaska

[Alaska]

I'm actually from Fairbanks, and I've always found it hard to compliment my own home-town, but yeah. It really is a pretty great place.

Plus, you'll get introduced to our weird Asatru-survivalist scene. A bunch of white boys with dreads, carhartts, eihwaz face tats, and they all play neo-folk and listen to industrial. It's pretty odd at first, but they're good people. Just avoid the 50 year old ex-FTRA type of guys. Remember; Alaska is where people go when they realize they hate the rest of the world.

If you get here before May, I'll still be around. Help ya get a place to crash and all that good stuff.

 

[TheUndeadPhoenix]

If you get here before May, I'll still be around. Help ya get a place to crash and all that good stuff.

If I do come, I doubt it'll be soon. I'm headed to NYC for a bit, but I might come up there after I graduate and can go where ever the fuck I want

 

[iamwhatiam]

hey Alaska, where is old Preacher John (Gerard) hanging out nowadays?

 

[Alaska]

Last time I saw him, he was in Anchorage. A few months back, actually. Hanging with some dude who had a little cardboard box bed next to a net cafe. Sometimes I think that man will live forever.

Where are you at, sir?

 

[iamwhatiam]

hey, don't call me names!!! lol i'm in hawaii. southern cali in 4 days
thats good to know about gerard. that guy was one of the most ingenious and intriguing bums i ever met. a dharma bum. i wouldn't even call him a bum cause i never saw him "bum" anything. i never saw him buy anything...hell i don't even think he ever touched money. people would say he was a little crazy...but thats just cause he'd go off on a rave about jesus and such, and wore homemade shoes made of rags, and his odd manerisms. but if i were ever in a post-apocalyptic survival situation, i would want to be on his team.

 

[Hylyx]

Hey, anyone still in Alaska? I'm thinking about heading up there for a little bit between now and Thanksgiving. I have family in the Bellingham area, so it'd be cool to go to AK and then back down for a feast.

The ferry totally seems like the way to go, but I dunno if it goes this late in the year, or if visiting is even worth it....

 

[DregeDE]

Dunno if much has been said on it, shivering too hard to read forever. When I went to petersburg in 99/00 - maybe 01 -- can't remember now, it was like 220 and about a thousand to get a car on depending on length and weight - like your schoolbus with goblins painted on the side definatly tips the scales and will require a likely double price. anchorage is only 2 or 3 hundred more by pack on deck for sure. cabbins can be had for more. I suggest robbing the bar at night between the guard-o-the-watch's rounds, pull the gate back and slide under it - thats what I did - I was drinkin hennesey all the way there and back - but then again I was insane when I was younger.
If I was set up with bluewater ready multi-hull or mono-cruiser, I'd personaly hit up the Aleutian islands in the south west quadrant. even if your not a sesoned commercial fisherman there is gonna be shittons of work in the inns, brothels and bars 'round that season and prolonged employment through the summer - but it'd probably be against advisement to go to the infamous dutch harbor, by now lotta deadliest catch enthusiasts probably turned it into a tourist town or something weird like that.