by Jonathan Evans | Aug 23, 2009 | Alaska, Food, Non-Travel, US Trip
If you want to be shot in Alaska, other than doing it yourself (which, given the low levels of sunlight in winter it seems a lot of people do. The state has the highest per capita suicide rate in the US), there are 2 ways. Say the wrong thing about Sarah Palin to the...
by Jonathan Evans | Aug 22, 2009 | Alaska, Food, US Trip
Let’s play a game. How about Word Association? I’ll say a word and you come up with a word or phrase it makes you think of. First thing that pops into your head. OK? Ready? Here goes… …Salmon. You probably (bear with me here) came up with...
by Jonathan Evans | Aug 21, 2009 | Alaska, Non-Travel, US Trip
Back on the good ship Columbia. Of all the places I’ve left in the last few months, leaving Ketchikan was the hardest. It was always the aim of my trip, originally the plan was to get there overland from Buenos Aires. Well, that didn’t quite work out, but...
by Jonathan Evans | Jul 29, 2009 | Non-Travel, US Trip
OK, so humanity has unravelled the human genome, been to the moon and we have machines that can tell us exactly where we are on the planet. But, I have a question for science. What is the point of Adam Sandler? Has he ever made a good film? Ben Stiller is no thespian...
by Jonathan Evans | Jul 28, 2009 | Alaska, US Trip
I’ve just boarded the venerable MV Colombia which, in a mere 38 hours, will deliver me to Ketchikan, Alaska where I will be staying for a week or two with my cousin. In the last 3 weeks I’ve made my way up from San Diego, via Los Angeles, Monterey, Santa...
by Jonathan Evans | Jul 13, 2009 | US Trip
OK, so you’ve read the last entry and are thinking, wait a minute, one minute he’s in Machu Picchu and now he’s blathering on about being in California? How can that be? Well, yes faithful reader, I am indeed in California, the Golden State (not the...
