08/28/2026
I arrived in Alaska with an offering, a starlight crystal from a New Mexican canyon, and I walked and walked through the boreal rainforest until I found the exact tree I used to hug strewn with moss and lichen, no longer on the path now diverted for a new parking lot. I buried the stone in her roots and kindly asked Alaska to gift us her truest self. And we were blessed with rain and sunshine, majestic views and rare animal sightings, even an earthquake. The sun lengthened our days, and we hiked to alpine tundra, boated through sea otter coves, drove ATVs to remote cabins.
I wrote about it here and also offered up "A Slow Nine-Day Alaska Travel Itinerary Created by Someone Who Used to Live There." (For paid subscribers)
