Tag Archive for Alaska
The Alaska Checklist
I really thought I’d find time to post this last week, but Oops. There was lots of stuff to eat, pack, and say goodbye to. Mt. Roberts is in Juneau, riiiiight next to the ship. You can either take a tram partway up, or take the trail up from town (as illustrated above). I really felt […]
Unfortunately Appropriate
Here I am back in Juneau with Nicola, a week later, still grumbling over Comicpress. Erngh. Five days till I get back to New York and bother someone for a solution…
Good Life Choice
Yeah, when I’m mesmerized by scenery, I forget that there are consequences to walking uphill as fast as possible for an hour and change. The chili’n beer in question was from the Skagway Brewing Company, which I try to hit every time I’m in that port. It seems that just as I’m becoming a regular […]
Alaskan buildings
The top one is the back of a shop in the verrry gold rush-style Skagway, Alaska, and the bottom ones are houses in Juneau. It was so refreshing to draw these after spending days on the New Orleans comic, where I’m drawing everything from digital photos and a year-old script. Drawing buildings on-site was one […]
Lunch with Musician-Dudes (an excellent pastime)
This is a quick sketch I did today in Ketchikan, Alaska. (Kasa had an…unprecedented reaction to being drawn.) Don, to his right, is leaving in two days, so the four of us went on a wildlife tour, then ate lunch at the New York Hotel. (I wholeheartedly recommend their coffee, and their salmon panini with lemon, capers, red […]
I really might miss the ship today
It’s another embark day, but this time we’re in Seward, Alaska. I was prepared to resent Seward for not being Vancouver, our other home port. Plus, after three weeks in Alaska, I thought I was over the ex-gold-rush towns with a few blocks of bars, new age gift shops, and Alaska t-shirts. But on the 2-mile walk into town, the […]
Alaska Pictures
There’s a comedian onstage tonight, so the band is celebrating a day off in Juneau. The guys are drinking at The Viking, watching “the game,” and I’m breakfasting at the Silverbow Bakery. It’s impossible to get away from the ship in a small port like this: I counted five ship people and six “real people” when I […]