Seeing and Saving Southeast Alaska

– Doug

This morning in Marin County, California, the low clouds and fog are dense. It’s gray and cool. I find myself bundling up and thinking about more northerly and even cooler places where I’ve lived and traveled over the years.

Right away my thoughts drift up the Inside Passage to Southeast Alaska where I lived for a few years in the early 1970’s before moving to Anchorage where I stayed until 1982. I get back up quite a bit to do television stories, visit old friends and favorite haunts and discover new places. I’m also on the board of the Alaska Conservation Foundation (ACF) which, among other things, raises and distributes money to support critical conservation groups and programs in the state. I’ve had a long love affair with Alaska and I go, in real life and in my imagination, whenever I can.

Photo: Inside Passage by the17pointscale

We have a few of our Alaska stories here on OpenRoad.TV: Alaska’s River of Bears; Sitka, Alaska’s Russian and Tlingit Heritage, Juneau, Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier with more to come. Many of you have traveled there, some numerous times. Some of you even live in Alaska today. Please send us your thoughts, tips and stories about your journeys in the Great Land. We’d love to know about them.

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