Barrow

When I made my list of places in the US that few people have been to, this was near the top

i want to watch the sunrise for the first time on january 24th… which happens to be my birthday!

I went to Barrow in Summer,1999 with my family. When we went, there was a festival, something to do with Whale Hunting. The natives were very friendly and let all of us get involved. They had a trampoline made of animal skin held by a circle of people, and offered us all whale blubber, the only time I have ever had any. We ate at a Mexican Restaurant while there, which to this day is still the best Mexican food I have ever had. Some memorable sights were the whale skeletons around the town used as decorations, and the Northernmost Point in the U.S. sign. Watch out for polar bears!

AMAZING trip. . . we were there for New Years 2000. Like no other place I’ve been. Seeing the Northern lights from the plane was a trip in itself!

I had never been to Alaska when a flight attendant offered me a free flight to Barrow. As she put it “You’ll never have a reason to go there but you have to go!” and before I knew it she had non-reved me to the top of the world. During my 36 hour visit I ate whale (tastes like a boot not chicken), learned the definition of a damp town. Had amazing guacamole at the northern most Mexican restaurant in the world and saw a polar bear while riding shot gun in an old skewl Hummer. Cool town (pun intended) go if only to say you’ve been there!!

Supposedly it’s the law that parents and/or guardians have to wait at the door and watch their children walk to the bus to make sure they’ve made it safely and have not been eaten by a bear! I’m not really sure what the parent or guardian would do if a bear actually did attack a child, but I’d like to go up there and find out.

Stopped on my way to the top.