Someday Never Comes

Here is your post about the intervening period, Rachel!

Well then. Alaska is intriguing and cold! Fairbanks is an odd town. It seems a mix of soviet projects, industrial everything, frontiersy kitsch, and random city parts interspersed. I think I shall like it here. Post is not too bad so far. Small, as I expected, but we shall see how it all works out as I start to inprocess next week. Have inprocessing to do, find an apartment next week, and in general start to get settled here. Might even wargame up here! The store is better than I thought it would be.

So trip! I departed Georgia with a missing window and GPS. It was pouring rain. I was not pleased. I made it to Illinois in record time.. do not have any idea why. Saw Rachel and Deej, <3s to them! I still must convince someone to visit me in Alaska! Got to chill with Cliff briefly, and had a surprise good time with Bruce and Tim. Everyone loves themselves some margaritas. I then proceeded on my two day sprint across the United States to Idaho. Western Nebraska and Wyoming are still gorgeous. I guess.. well, it is the beginning of a sense of home. Mountain time is superior time.

I really started to feel happy driving around Burley. Very content to be in familiar territory. This speaks to future! Had a wonderful visit with family and friends in Idaho. Then it was time to depart on the scary trip north! I say scary in retrospect. At the time, it was adventure!

First day on up to Abbotsford, BC was just fine. Washington and Oregon were pretty. Consideration for law school in the area has risen! Sad the only one in Idaho is in Moscow. Day two.. well, that was the stressful day, no doubt. Driving through British Columbia to get to Dawson Creek was frustrating, long, and not a pleasant drive. I was exhausted. Day three was not as bad, and once I got past Stone Mountain, it started picking up. 18.5 hours of driving though to get to Whitehorse. Again, exhausted. I slept in the next day, and then proceeded on mostly good roads to Fairbanks!

With the exception of the Alaska Canada Highway right near the boarder with Alaska. The damn road is bumpy for a good 30, 40 km. I was getting air on every third bump it felt like. That and the one stop off in Beaver Creek irritated me. Could not get rid of trash or use restroom there, as owners put signs up against both. Very irritable. I recommend not patronizing them! You know, to everyone who reads this and drives ridiculous drives.

Conclusion: I would not like to do that drive again during the winter. The summer.. well, I would. It was absolutely gorgeous even during the winter.. I can only imagine the summer. NFL playoffs are going horridly for me so far. College postseason was not terribly kind to me either. Only Iowa and Boise State won. Though I should be thankful that my team did win! Woo BSU! I am one proud alumnus. The Dennys in Prince George, BC is one of the most awesome places ever. They serve booze! The Dennys here in Fairbanks is surprisingly good.. and the northernmost one in the world!

I do like my shady diners. I am plus one friend. I apparently have used a bunch of exclamation marks in this post. Bribery does not work. I will refuse to take the money. I am, however, getting paid by the Army in about two weeks. Deliciously large sums with which to rebuild a life up here. I am a filled with trepidation about actually going to a unit. This will disappear as I get settled in and used to everything. Just the unknown, you see. Living in a hotel at the moment. It will take a while to get used to time change. I suspect it will take a while to get used to many things.

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