Little was known about the interior Alaska by the Western world until the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush. The photo of minors forming a long line ascending the mountain barrier is haunting. Now we have a road that connects us, and airliners arrive and depart by the hour. Much of that sense of isolation is therefore illusionary - but not entirely. That barrier still exists in the Alaskan psych. Two thousand miles of the drive is mainly through a buffer - a no-man's-land of wilderness.Monday, September 21, 2009
Leaving For the "Outside"!
Monday, September 21, 2009. Rain today, and there was more prep to be done...so it's another day before we leave for the "Outside". That term,"Outside", is an idiom in the Alaskan vernacular referring to anywhere outside of the state. I expect it derives from the isolation felt by early settlers. Living up here, fifty years ago, and even today, creates the impression that one is existing within a cocoon - the rest of the world, remote and far away. Little was known about the interior Alaska by the Western world until the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush. The photo of minors forming a long line ascending the mountain barrier is haunting. Now we have a road that connects us, and airliners arrive and depart by the hour. Much of that sense of isolation is therefore illusionary - but not entirely. That barrier still exists in the Alaskan psych. Two thousand miles of the drive is mainly through a buffer - a no-man's-land of wilderness.
Little was known about the interior Alaska by the Western world until the 1890's Klondike Gold Rush. The photo of minors forming a long line ascending the mountain barrier is haunting. Now we have a road that connects us, and airliners arrive and depart by the hour. Much of that sense of isolation is therefore illusionary - but not entirely. That barrier still exists in the Alaskan psych. Two thousand miles of the drive is mainly through a buffer - a no-man's-land of wilderness.
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