The Road North

For those who have never driven an overloaded Ford wagon with a king-sized bed on the roof rack topped by a tied-down hand truck and fifty feet of garden hose, a six-foot sofa in the back and every place inside crammed with dishes, clothes, other housewares, and fishing tackle - like a moving garage sale - just imagine the world's largest skateboard with mirrors.' That's how the author describes the start of his solo mid-life journey to a job in Alaska. Travel along with him as he recalls the road and sea trip and his introduction to life on the urbanized Last Frontier in Southeast Alaska.