Alaska Bound-The Dream

As long as I can remember, I’ve wanted to live in a cabin in the woods…living off the land. There’s not too many places left where one can do that these days. There may be some spots left in Montana, maybe Idaho or Wyoming. But Alaska has always held a lure for me; a land of extremes …half the time its dark, half the time its always light, and it offers seclusion too!

Being a person of extremes, its probably why Alaska has drawn me in. Half the year dark? Satisfies my love for getting up early in the morning before the world has woken up. I imagine it will be like early mornings before the world has awakened…the pre dawn hours I love so much; scurrying about trying to beat the sunrise. Oh the joys and thrills of months of the “darkness before the dawn…imagine how much I will get accomplished trying to beat a sunrise that won’t happen for months!  And with the dark comes the Northern lights. I wonder if I shall be able to sleep through such a beautiful phenomenon.

And then when the pendulum swings and it is light nearly all the time- perfect for me and my gardening. I always seem to want more daylight hours to finish planting a few more seeds, or paint a lil more with the light coming in perf from the window. Have you seen how huge veggies get in Alaska? The plants can’t help but keep growing with 20+ hours of sun. Just the thought of all that daylight sets the gardener in me on fire.

Each day I reflect on advantages I would have in Alaska that I don’t have here in the desert:

• Besides the two extremes above, the weather would be a most welcome change. I have lived 40 yrs in the desert. I’ve had enough heat and I’m one of the weirdos here that cherishes the winters and shoveling snow.
• I so miss the ocean smells, fog, salt air ♥… *sigh*
• Remote living, lush green scenery, rivers and lakes abound. Ahhh I can almost smell the pine air mixing with salt air; a loved memory imprint from Big Sur, Calif.
• Berry picking galore; another childhood memory – picking berries in Montana’s Glacier Nat’l Park
• Fishing OMG FISHING!!! I am the world’s most die hard fishergal EVER! I’m the last one sitting out there ..’wait, I think I got a bite’  They drove away and left me once…Lol

All of a sudden (or so it seemed) it hit me, why was I ‘waiting’ to go to Alaska? Alaska has always been my dream. WHY am I waiting to live my dream? If I’ve learned nothing else here in the last 20 years, its that life’s too short NOT to live your dreams. I have no ties here, no family, only this house. And a house is a thing. And things can be bought, sold, and replaced.

Well, truth be told, I was hoping to make a connection with someone there, and then maybe he’d help me??? After all, it is a GINORMOUS venture that would be made about a thousand percent easier with someone by my side.  About the time of the eclipse, it dawned on me, I don’t need a man to help me do this! I moved here without any help…of course, I had a man and a home to which I was moving…so this move is a bit more daring, and challenging. But hey, everything I’ve done my whole life has led up to this final move to the last frontier….well, maybe not final. I’m still searching for HIM…more on that later…

Anywho, I see people commenting all over the Alaska FB pages how ‘they wished they could move to AK, but…’

And I think, hey! I am 60 years old AND female and if I can do it… Kinda wish I had video of what I am going through each day. But I’m not that tech saavy (that would be another vote for a partner in this) so instead I’ll try and take the time each day to blog my journey North to the future.

Maybe at some point, I will come back and add pictures to these Alaska journey posts. But for now, I’ll just leave my words here. I’m hoping it will help me sort through all the details and timing of what is needed. It is nearing the end of August and I am STILL hoping to be in AK before winter hits.

I’ve asked the universe for a biggie this time…Sssssh its The Secret 🙂

Til my next mind burst,

Cindi