I'm back!!!

Spire · Posted: Wed, 02 May 2007 00:53:59 Post Subject: I'm back!!!

For those that don't know I have had a busy month.

I sold my house, sold both my trucks and my SS and put everything I owned into a new 20' snowmachine trailer hooked it to my Excursion and started driving for the Kenai Peninsula Alaska.

A buddy, two dogs and I made it across BC Canada and the Yukon territory and 600 miles into alaska in just under 5 days. A trip I recommend doing someday, just not twice.

We drove the first day from the Bay Area California to Seattle Tacoma and I discovered my trailer was rubbing a touch so I decided to take it to the Port of Tacoma and have it shipped to Anchorage. When they weighed the trailer it grossed out at 9600 lbs... 2600 lbs over the max... If I would have entered the nothern part of BC or the Yukon the trailer would have exploded on the large destroyed road bumps called frost heaves. All my s#!7 spread out all over Canada.

We just got word that an offer we made on a house was accepted... 3100 sq. ft. 3 story 4 bd 3 bath on 1.5 acres 5 minutes from work... $189.000. Oh and my pay went up by $12.00/hr, mortgage dropped in half and house size tripled.

this is the most beautiful state I have ever visited.

Pictures will be coming as I get time.

acruxksa · Posted: Wed, 02 May 2007 01:26:54 Post Subject:

Welcome to The Last Frontier!!!!

Where in Kenai Spire? I live in Anchorage (which you had to go through to get to Kenai, unless you took the ferry). I drive through the Kenai peninsula several times a year to go to work in Homer.

Wish you would have told me you were moving to AK. This is a HUGE state, but in terms of population, there isn't much here. Counting you, that make 2 BB.com members in AK. %100 increase in 5 yrs. Maybe that makes AK forum members the fastest growing segment of BB.com Grin

PS. You think its nice now, wait till summer sets in. Fishing, Hunting, Camping, Daylight all the time etc................It just gets better and better until winter sets in, but as long as you either like to ski/snowboard or ride snowmachines, you will like winters too.

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

I'm glad to hear from you again Spire. Maybe you can make CES 2008 now that you'll be settled in. I can't wait to see those pictures....

Oh and when are you going to start reviewing again... you know you want to!

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

by the way... ignore the signature... its BB gone mad...

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 02 May 2007 07:28:04 Post Subject:

Hola... Glad you made it. And oh yeah, PICS! Wave

knight0334 · Posted: Wed, 02 May 2007 08:50:37 Post Subject:

Congrats man!! Congrats!!

All sorts of new found freedoms will be discovered now that you're out of the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia.

Hellfire · Rated XXX Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 3473

Grats on making that trip safely.

I love Alaska, it's absolutely beautiful in any time of the year (btw, I love the cold). If I had my way, I'd be up there too.

heylinder · Posted: Wed, 02 May 2007 10:04:01 Post Subject:

Congrats! Sounds like an exciting adventure Smile

Looking forward to pics!

BeerCheeze · Posted: Wed, 02 May 2007 12:25:55 Post Subject:

About time you got back on the forums. What real life is more important? Pffft.

Grin

Glad things are working out for you. Update us in December again. Grin

Then we'll see how much you like it.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 02 May 2007 16:37:14 Post Subject:

I just remembered... I was originally supposed to leave for Alaska in a few days. Whole family was going on a 10 day cruise up and down the Alaskan coast until just about everyone involved got some sort of medical issue...

One day, one day!