Back from the Edge of Civilization

I haven't been blogging much...because I went to Alaska!



I climbed a mountain! (Mostly without complaint, even.)



I saw beautiful glacial streams!



I sailed high above a gorge in a rickety little metal basket on a rope! (This is my friend Graham, so picture me there, except completely pale and shaking.)



There were bald eagles! I also saw two moose, about 9 sea otters, and the inside of a bar called the Salty Dawg that I wasn't quite sure I was going to make it out of alive.



I stayed in a condo on the beach by real live volcanoes!



I ate fish on purpose! (And liked it, miraculously enough.)



I also wrote and wrote and wrote, and went to the Kachemak Bay Writers Conference, where I saw Peggy Shumaker and took amazing classes with Antonya Nelson. It was a great, great week.

And I think your vacation is just the right amount of time when you're ready to go home, and I was.

Next week: Beau moves to DC!