grizzly tales

Hi folks, week 3 and the odd couple are in beautiful Sitka waiting for the ferry to Juneau. Slept out under the stars on 2 ferries...humpback whales, porpoises, eggs over easy etc. Kato's Kave ( a bar) in Petersburg was nearly our downfall...a cross between the House of the Rising Sun and Eigg tearoom. Hired a Buick with Alaska plates and behind the wheel was Paul and explored the magnificent Mitkof Island. Alaska Brewery is very, very good indeed but the Yanks are paranoid about booze, but not about food. Blimey there are some fat b......s up here. They eat crap by the bucket-full. John and I are feasting on fresh fish ( salmon, halibut, black cod, prawns etc) and he likes to eat girl food too ( yoghurt, muesli, fruit etc). Yesterday he shaved his legs and washed his hired bike and had a day out. He certainly looked like an Olympic cyclist to me despite the slight damage to his homemade lemon curd tart.

Sitka is a 300 year old Russian town and Petersburg is Norwegian ( are you taking notes? ).John is keen on camping at Mendenhall Glacier nr Juneau and eat nuts and berries; me I'll be in a downtown bar in Juneau enjoying a cultural exchange with the locals. Seriously though he is the ideal travelling companion, laid back, untroubled, almost deaf and partially sighted, which is a nice contrast to my edgy, caustic, grumpy self.


Backpackingly yours,

The guys