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The preceding blog entry “inspired” me to dig out my old Hi-8 video tapes and put together a little web video of our Alaskan adventure in June 2001. After a lifetime of still photography, I was just starting to get into video at this point…so, sorry about some of the shakes, but hope you enjoy:

Back in the late 80s, a bunch of us marketing guys from Hawaii qualified for a TV advertising incentive prize that my wife, Sally Ann, and I thoroughly enjoyed: We flew to Miami, Florida, then spent seven days and six nights on a new Carnival ship cruising the Western Caribbean with ports of call at Cozumel, Mexico [beautiful, clear water]; Georgetown, Grand Cayman [beautiful sugar-sand beaches and clear-water snorkeling]; and Ocho Rios, Jamaica-mon [the Gray's River Falls State Park is unforgettable] — plus the opportunity to look around Miami a little bit, go airboating in the Everglades [very noisy — something you don't realize from CSI Miami and other movies; but fun and fascinating to see all the fish, turtles and gators] and even drive down to the upper Keys. The trip was great…and whetted our appetite to take another cruise some day.

Over the next few years as we thought about it, cruising the Inside Passage from Washington to Alaska seemed to be on everybody’s list as one of the best. We were definitely interested since neither of us had ever been to Alaska; and when (now retired) Professor Dale Hammond suggested we consider the “poor man’s cruise” to Alaska, it sounded like “high adventure” — a hallmark Sally and I often try for in our family vacations: (more…)

You know that saying, when it comes to food, that fresh is best? It’s really true…or at least it certainly was in the case of several fresh-food stories I’d like to share — one about peanut butter, of all things, and the others about fish. Pay particular attention to the last one: (more…)