Errands We started the day with a list of questions. We started by driving the 20 miles north into Healy and going to Three Bears–one of a chain of Alaskan grocery stores. There we found a produce section that will be good enough and some bottled water. Then we returned 10 miles south to the…
View Through the Window
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Of Fairbanks We started the day by searching out the local UU Church. Many of the smaller UU congregations ask first-time visitors to stand and introduce themselves. Arlene and I have done this on multiple occations and we include that our home congregation is Cedars Unitarian Universalist Church. Then afterwards people will…
So It Begins (Again)
Photograph Details We spent all day in the car and we’re tired but we’re in Fairbanks. Crossing the border into Alaska was even easier than it was getting into Canada. The border patrol guy asked us only what we were bringing in that had been purchased in Canada. When I said “a couple of cans…
The Drive to Destruction Bay
The Boardwalk From Yesterday That Was Built By Surrealists. Here is the picture: This Morning At The Inn On The Lake We had a shorter day of driving planned today so we were purposely slow leaving our the place that was like a Bed and Breakfast. After waking up we sat in the common room…
In the Yukon
Smithers After Prince George we drove to Smithers, a cool little town in the shadow of Hudson Bay Moutain. We walked the neat downtown area in about 20 minutes. Two places of interest were Smithers Brewing Company and Bugwood Coffee. We stopped at the brewery and bought their attempts at an American Wheat and a…
Long day in the car
Coffee After checking out of the motel we went for coffee at Blue Moose in Hope. In the display case were many tasty-looking baked items such as a spinach feta thingy with a nice checkered pattern and Arlene had her eye on a fruity scone of some sort. We’d already had breakfast so we didn’t…
So it begins
On the ferry We started our journey to Alaska today. We began by packing up the car and riding the ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle. This is us sitting on the back bumper of the car with the hatch open on the ferry. Bellingham We stopped for lunch in Bellingham and went to The…
Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)
Arlene and I finally visited LIGO after begin unable to find the right weekend for years. We learned that it is the most sensitive measurement instrument ever build by humans. And that we need to learn more about signal processing and spectral density.