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Welcome! I am posting entries on various topics ranging from travel, genealogy, families, relationships, mental health, recovery, men’s issues, aging, and more. While it would certainly be nice if you bought my book: “Family Hunger – Breathe Life Into Your Family History” through amazon.com, I encourage to write and record your own stories.
I am working on my second book: “Chasing Headstones – How to Transition Into Retirement and Into the Ground – or How to Avoid Both”, and my third book: “Now What? Alaska!”
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Ashes in the Ocean
© Copyright Todd Neel The high tide is coming in, and little Cape Creek at the edge of the Pacific Ocean is clashing with ocean currents. I see an unidentified white substance at the bottom of the creek, wondering if it is someone’s cremains. I am inspired to scatter some more of my brother’s, David’s,…
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Bear Scat and Porcupine Breakfast!
No, this is not what I had for breakfast. 9/18/2024 Wednesday – I wake up at my boondock camp up the Portage Glacier Road on the way to Whittier, AK. I have turned off Highway 1 on my way south from Anchorage to Seward, which had been my goal yesterday if I hadn’t been distracted by…
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Bore Tide on the Turnagain Arm
© Copyright Todd Neel 9/17/2024 Tuesday – Man, I saw the most fantastic thing yesterday! I left Anchorage after my two-night stay at the Ship Creek RV Park. On the way south on Alaska Highway 1 to Seward, I witnessed the Bore Tide on Turnagain Arm of the Chickloon Bay of the Cook Inlet. …
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ARRIVAL IN ANCHORAGE!
© Copyright Todd Neel 9/15 Sunday and 9/16/2024 Monday – Day 15 and 16 on the road. I spent two nights urban camping at the Ship Creek RV Park in Anchorage because I needed to repair my camper furnace, which seemed to be working only about half the time I needed it. And it has…
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DENALI STATE PARK/PASS CREEK and DENALI VIEW NORTH REST AREA
© Copyright Todd Neel 9/13 – 9/14/2024 – Day 13 and 14 of 29 Left Savage River Campground in Denali National Park and hiked Horseshoe Lake trail at the entrance to the National Park. Horseshoe Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska Marsh near Horseshoe Lake, Denali National Park, Alaska Bridge across outlet stream of Horseshoe Lake,…
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TRAVEL DAY INSIDE DENALI NATIONAL PARK
© Copyright Todd Neel 9/12/2024 Thursday – Day 12 of 39 of road trip A disappointing day. The weather didn’t let me see The High One – Denali Peak. I had made a reservation for a shuttle bus tour inside Denali National Park for this day. The Savage River Campground, where I’m staying, is 13…
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