When you depend on something so entirely that your life would be drastically different without it, do you tend to ignore the fact you depend on it? Take fuel as an example. It wasn’t until the recent (in terms of years) gas price increase that the average Joe realized how dependant he was on a [...]

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When we woke up the next morning it was raining, so we stayed in our tents and drifted off to sleep again. We were worn out from the day before, and the rain just gave us an excuse to sleep a little more. Our 8:30 am wake up turned into 11:00 am. As we were [...]

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Just in case you didn’t notice, I changed the way that my site looks. The other one was good, but this is much cleaner, and I like the fact that I drew all of the elements myself. The idea behind the redesign was to get rid of all extra junk I felt was detracting from [...]

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Written by Kelly Patterson for http://www.blog.couchsurfing.com.   In case it is not clear by now, there is not much “nightlife” out here in Homer, Alaska, save for really bad costume karaoke, playing pool at a scrubby but charming pub, bonfires with Chubby Bunny contests, Scrabble, “Netflix Night”, and the hot tub. Therefore, we at the [...]

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Alaska’s Crow Pass Trail Part 1 – Glaciers, rivers, and mountains I destroyed my legs this weekend. Absolutely tore them to shreds. I used one excursion point (we have 18 of them to spend on excursions that appeal to us) to go on a 25 mile long hike called the Crow Pass Trail. It started [...]

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Seen the new profiles on Facebook yet? I didn’t think so. They will be rolling out the week of July 14th and they change a lot of things that have become comfortable to users. Links to sections or "Boxes" will be at the top of the screen now and will be organized for easy access. [...]

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My Parents just left Alaska. They were here for a week and it was a busy one. They didn’t make too many plans, which turned out to be just fine since my week ended up being pretty open. A lot of people left the collective this week for various reasons, and the house was pretty [...]

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