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takes AWESOME photos. Here is his latest batch, an engagement photoshoot in the Pennsylvania Appalachia.

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Hands in the air if you’re interested in any of the following!

Oct 8 – Bell X1 – Rams Head (Annapolis)
Oct 8 – Creation Festival on tour – Weinberg Center for the Arts (Frederick)
Oct 15 – Jars of Clay (Creation thing again?) – Calvary Church Lancaster, PA
Oct 20 – Little Richard – Rams Head (Annapolis)

Aujourd’hui et récemment mon cœur chante les chansons d’amour pour Paris.

Viens Dans Ma Rue (Mireille Mathieu)
J’ai Deux Amours (j’écoute la version à Madeleine Peyroux)

À l’instant j’ai une bonne amie à Paris. Je suis si heureuse pour elle, qui est là en cours de poursuivre ses rêves. Elle va commencer d’enseigner anglais a l’école pendant cette année scolaire. Moi, comme ses autres amis, j’ai envie d’entendre comment ça va. Mais c’est inévitable que pendant que je pense à sa vie en France, je commence a réfléchir a mon séjour passé à Paris…et mon cœur commence à languis pour la cité. Il n’est pas étonnant qu’elle ait voulu de retourner et a eu difficulté de se séparer d’elle la dernière fois.

Chaque jour j’ai soif des nouvelles de mon amie et des photos ainsi je lis son blog : sarahgilmour.wordpress.com. Je pense à l’atmosphère et à la culture de la cité et son peuple, comment l’air frais reflète bien la météo. (Bien sûr je suis un petit peu jalouse.) Je soupire pour Paris. Aussi tôt que possible, (et que mon amie est prête) j’y vais, même s’il coûte cher! L’amour (et l’amitié) demande les sacrifices.

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Speaking of sacrifices, I’m laboring as quickly and efficiently as possible on renovating my bedroom and going through all my earthly possessions. I’m throwing things out and packing others up for when I have a place of my own with room to display them, uncluttered. I’ve got items in pretty much every room of the house and I’m trying desperately to regain them and sort through them asap. I know it aggravates my mom to have the house like this, so I’m working as hard as possible to get it together. And then move out. Maybe. It’s all part of the plan: 1. Get my life organized. 2. Do what I want with a sense of liberation. I’m very optimistic.

And I’m 9 days behind on posts! Oops. I’ll probably log the last part of the trip with a couple photos here while we drive from Homer to Anchorage and at the airport/on the airplane. You know there are some airlines with WiFi in-flight? I don’t know if we will have it, and I’ll probably be more interested in sleeping or the in-flight movie, but I’m just saying.

So, July 4th. Dad drove so long he saw the sun come up. (Probably between 3 and 4am.) He, of course, got a shot of it and I, of course, slept through it all in my bunk above the cab and bounced around up there until he stopped at a pulloff. There we slept until 10.

We started with a late breakfast in the RV and took it easy the rest of the day. We drove to Kenny Lake Campground, reserved a spot for the night, bought firewood, did laundry, and ate pie and had a milkshake. Then we drove down to Valdez. Yes, Valdez of the famed Exxon incident (1989) and also famed tsunami (1964). There we walked and photographed the harbor, watched professionals cut and weigh some big ol’ fish, and then we ate some AK versions of the old fish and chips -dad had Salmon Nuggets and Chips and I had fresh Cod and Chips.

Walking toward the RV to leave town we heard and somewhat saw some patriotic fireworks, which were launched in the foreground of a heavily forested bluff (sun still hadn’t set). Then we began the 2hr drive back to Kenny Lake.

On July 5th, we drove to Chitina to take Wrangell Mt. Air into the very remote town of McCarthy adjacent to the historic mining town of Kennicott for a guided hike of Root Glacier.

*****Yes, this is what an unfinished blog entry looks like. Unfortunately I really wanted to rest on the airplane on the way home. Understandably, hopefully. So maybe someday I will finish this post. I did have it saved as a draft for a long time, but since everyone likes to see the AK pix, I decided I’d publish this post, just to see the awesome yucky fish in Valdez.*****