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She takes pictures…

We’re back in Hoonah after a two-week stay in Ju

We’re back in Hoonah after a two-week stay in Juneau–house and dog sitting in the valley, visiting sailing friends, spending Thanksgiving with family friends, capped off with two nights living it up in a hotel with rooftop hot tub downtown, paid fir by points! With a population of just over 30k, Juneau isn’t exactly a big town, but in contrast to our last two years, it felt no less than cosmopolitan. That photo of the smoked cod spread on toast at the local brewpub? I nearly cried when I bit into it — actually good tasting food, a good beer, in a bustling atmosphere with *life energy*. As much as we like to spend time alone and in nature, I’m used to splitting it up occasionally with some joys to the senses—good food, design, the energy of people enjoying themselves in a public setting. Of course, none of us got any of that in 2020, and just when life started returning to a new normal this past year, we found ourselves in the middle of remote coastal AK, where there’s *very* little of it even in the best of times. Juneau, especially our two nights downtown, was like a two year weight lifted off my shoulders.
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Now we’re back in Hoonah, but we’ve decided, once our seasonal slip is near expiring this month, and a weather window hits, that we’ll move to Juneau. We do adore Hoonah, but the reasons we like it—the community in particular—just don’t manifest in the cold of winter. Especially with the lingering threat of another COVID outbreak here, in a very vulnerable community. We’re all just hunkered down inside. That, the difficulty in getting a good variety of food, getting shipments for boat projects in a timely manner, etc., combined with just how much we like what Juneau has to offer, was enough to make us change our minds. That’s the beauty of living in a moveable home, even in winter.

If you’re going to spend a winter in AK, you bes

If you’re going to spend a winter in AK, you best be ready to say yes to a chance to socialize, no matter the weather.

Chasing 70° for years, prior to that living in th

Chasing 70° for years, prior to that living in the SF Bay Area, prior to that, living in the Sierra Nevada foothills (where it snowed a bit a couple tones a year, maybe), I potentially see snow at least once a year, but if it’s minor dusting, it’s gone the next day. After our first day of consistent light snow here in Hoonah, the temps were consistently low enough for it to stick around on sunny day 2, making for a scenic morning walk.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Alaska…

It’s beginning to look a lot like Alaska…

With a high chance of Northern Lights last night b

With a high chance of Northern Lights last night but foggy skies, we went to bed thinking we wouldn’t see anything, until I got a text from a WA boat friend asking if we could see it up here, just as I was falling asleep. I decided to get up and poke my head out of the hatch on last time, and saw the telltale glow. So I got dressed and bundled up and walked out to the jetty, away from the streetlights and got an incredible 360° show, so bright that even an iPhone could pick it up. (Though it couldn’t pick up the colors and subtly move and pulsations). This one didn’t bring me to tears like the first one we saw outside of McArthy in 2015, but it was far more dramatic.
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P.S. this is what photos look like when you’re more interested in being in the moment than getting the perfect shot for The Socials (but still want to share your experience)!

With tides typically in the 14–17' range here, w

With tides typically in the 14–17' range here, we choose our timing wisely for when we need to haul things up or down from the boat.

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