Blast from the Past

I got a tweet yesterday that said, "#nowplaying Fleetwood Mac: Landslide" and that just brought me back almost 10 years, to 2002, when a Fleetwood Mac tape with "Landslide" was one of the few on a road trip I took to Anchorage, AK to hit up the local Wal-Mart. 

I was bundled in tight with two sisters from Fairbanks, Jennifer and Denali, who was a single mom, in Jennifer's Ford Bronco, or Explorer, or something like that. We were all in the same English class at Prince William Sound Community College in Valdez (of Exxon Valdez fame) and when you live in a po-dunk, white trash town of 4,000 on a good day, a four-hour road trip to Wal-Mart sounds just awesome.

While the above pic is not from any of the "Wal-Mart Trips" to Anchorage, it is still Alaska. It's actually a view that I had to pass at least twice a day on my way to school. Smack centre is Mt. McGinnis, aka Nipple Mountain, and don't be fooled, people have been airlifted off, or unfortunately died on, that simple-looking boobie. To the right in the back are the Mendenhall Towers, a rough, ice-age era snarl baring its unforgiving teeth from the middle of the Mendenhall Glacier.

I'm going to buy a writing cabin in Juneau one of these days. I guess I should started on the book that's going to help me do it.