Sounds like a great time, and yeah everybody knows you have ride to get all the gas out of the tank instead of draining it

and yeah, post up when u get to alaska so you can freeze like the rest of us

Going to Fort Richardson, Fort Greely or Fort Wainwright (or you serving at one of the airbases)? Joining the 172nd? I'm curious...

My take on Alaskan duty: Freeze in the winter, boil in the summer. The mosquitos in the summer that put the deep south to shame.

Peace be with you... safe PCS!

Cheers,
=-= The CyberPoet

Going to Ft. Richardson. Standing up a new unit up there. No, I will not be under the 172nd.

I have some buddies already up there and have been warned of the mosquitos.

Thanks for the safe wishes. I will most definately post up once I get there. Anybody know if there are any other KatRiders in Alaska?

there was one guy up there but i think he moved back to the states.

i think you'll have a lot of fun. i love it up there. when in the service i went up there 4 times ( king salmon, kotzebue, indian mountain, cold bay )
so i got to be in the artic circle - mid state & on the chain. i got to see a bit of the country side but worked mostly, when i met my girl friend ( now wife ) she had moved back from there - lived there a year. her brother & family still live there. we took a big trip up there a bunch of years back taking the train to denali national forest was probably the coolest thing - i haven't been up there for a couple of years - miss the fishing.

the low light winters can be hard but you get to live it up in the summer !
keep your eyes out for the moose ! we will be wanting to see LOTS of pictures !

enjoy

tim

p.s. deet is not the best thing for you but keeps those pesky biters away.

Man.. today started out pretty good and just got better.

Took off from the house on the Kat (with a dead battery) to meet my buddy that bought my boat to show him the ropes with it. Nice 30 minute ride to get out to the lake. Got to the lake and got the boat in the water. Showed him all the points of launching it, etc. Took me about 20 minutes to get it started since it hadn't been started for about a year, but once she started up she purred like a kitten. Loaded up his wife and two kids and across the lake we went. Showed him how to plane it up and we shot out across the lake like a bullet. I had forgotten just how nice a bass boat with a 150hp motor runs. Went over turning and all that stuff, then it was his turn. After getting him pretty good with it, I decided I needed to head home to my family. We get back to the boat ramp and I ask him if he remembered his jumper cables for my bike... I got a blank stare... : Maybe, just maybe the ride out charged up the battery enough. NOPE!! Well, guess it's time to push start the ol Kat. I head up the gravel hill to the road and start pushing. Got it started and headed home..... thinking a bike ride and a boat ride in the same day is a good day.

I get home to find my wife jumping up and down and dancing in the driveway. I think she is just exagerating daddy being home for the kids that were riding their bikes outside. Not quite... she had just gotten off the phone with the realtor and seems we are about to receive an offer for the full asking price and only 50% closing costs on our house!! Man what a day!! To celebrate we went to Logan's Roadhouse and I had a nice steak! Can't ask for much better days than that.

Just had to share.

Greg, glad to hear everything lined up for you to have an awesome day. Looking for your post from Alaska when you get there. Have fun freezing with the rest of us.

well that depends on if you got the kids to bed early....



tim

Well, getting down to the last two days, the wife and I are staying up late looking at houses, scheduling vehicle shipments, scheduling dog shipment, etc.