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My fave is the Kodi(ak) burger. But it’s an extraordinarily messy affair! Love sitting outside by Campbell Creek (at the Old Seward location) in the summer.

This might sound weird, but this place alone is nearly enough to convince me to uproot from Vancouver and settle down in Austin. A unique grocery store of awesome proportions. It’s like a little town, with a bakery in the corner, pasta bar, chef stations and park benches, gelato shop, and aisles and aisles of kitchen gadgets, organic and ethnic foods, produce, meat, wine – everything! There is just nothing like it here in Vancouver.

Prices didn’t seem too atrocious, either!

I wandered through the downtown streets. It was terrifying, like some sort of enormous outdoor mall with yummy mummies speeding along behind joggers and sooooo many people buying soooo much crap. It put me off shopping for months.

I’m not sure if Chester is worth visiting or not—I didn’t get to see the walls. Wish I had!

I joke with friends that Anchorage is a “good place to be from,” but I do miss it from time to time—biking from the Chugach foothills to the mud flats on the Coastal Trail, late-night salmon and halibut BBQs, the drive out to Beluga Point, waiting for hours for a table at Glacier Brewhouse, etc. Sure, it’s isolated and winter seems endless.

Yeah. It’s a great place to visit, a good place to be from, but it takes a special sort of outlook to live there.

Scary snaking highways, but a nice little (well… sprawling) bristling town.

What a place… Just a stunning drive from Tok to B.C.

Went on a wonderful three-week-long driving adventure in Iceland in November 2001 with a friend. It only took about 5 actual days of driving to do the Ring Road (the highway that, predictably, rings the island/country). Guesthouses and farm-fresh meals are absolutely the best way to go. The youth hostel in Reykjavik is outstanding as well.

We both grew up in Alaska, so the chilly weather and snowy mountain passes didn’t faze us.

Don’t be put off by the sulphur-smelling tap water—you’ll miss it when you’re gone.