Yep, I think I’ve taken this as far as possible. There was one other port, a quick stop in Victoria, Canada, and then a few more days at sea. (Why don’t people say “at ocean”? It is more accurate.) The ship employs people to do stuff like this to keep passengers entertained. I am […]
White Chief is the Best Hike in Mineral King
It is steep, really really steep, but White Chief canyon/bowl/valley begins only about 2-1/2 miles out of Mineral King. It has so much variety – you can go short or far, there are natural caves and historical mining tunnels, and a zillion kinds of rocks, sink holes, a lake, some sort of ponds, and even […]
Will Tuesday Cruisedays Ever End?
Yep. Next week. Promise! After Juneau, we went to a place called the Tracy Arm Fjord. It is a narrow canyon of water with the Sawyer Glay-see-uh at the end. The ship cruises slowly up the canyon at some crazy early hour in the morning, and if you have any sense, you’ll disregard the fact […]
What Do We Do In Mineral King?
Sometimes in Mineral King we just hang around the cabin, knitting, splitting wood, reading, playing a game called Mancala (I don’t like games but this is a tradition with my annual guest PC, and besides, the marbles are really beautiful), and baking pies in a wood stove oven. Then we say, “What are we doing?? […]
What Is The California Artist Doing?
Perhaps you’ve been wondering if I am still a California artist. Cruising to Alaska, having fun in Mineral King; is this chick even working any more?? I am working diligently on The Cabins of Wilsonia. You can follow the progress on my other blog, called The Cabins of Wilsonia. (Sometimes my own cleverness just slays me.) […]
Cruisedays, Tuesdays
This is Chapter Six of Fun Things I Will Never Do Again (Unless Someone Else Pays) or “My Alaskan Cruise”. Juneau might have been my favorite stop. This could be because we were there the longest of all the ports. After visiting the Mendenhall Glay-shee-uh, we went up Mt. Roberts. Mt. Roberts has a tram, […]
Wood Stove, Pies, and Friendship in Mineral King
(Today’s post is about cabin life in Mineral King rather than hiking. If this is boring to you, tune in again next Friday.) In a former life, I was a baker. Pies were the specialty of the outfit where I was employed. It was a long time ago. Now I only bake pies for special […]
How to Enjoy and Use This Blog
Big fat happy THANK YOU to those of you who return to my blog, over and over. Based on some emails I’ve received, it is time to go over a few things to help you enjoy this blog. 1. Some of you have asked me how to comment. This is tricky. Some of your computers don’t […]
More Tuesday Cruiseday
Chapter Five of My Alaskan Cruise, or Cruising is a Fantasy Life, or Fun Things I Will Never Do Again (Unless Someone Else Pays) Our third and final day with feet on Alaskan soil was spent in Juneau, the capital of Alaska. It is disconnected from the rest of the state unless you fly or […]
List of random thoughts about cabins and Mineral King
For clarification, this blog is about a California artist, me, to be specific. Mineral King is one of my main sources of inspiration, it is in California, I call my business “Cabinart”, there are cabins in Mineral King, and this is The Season in Mineral King. Any questions? Yes? Click on the commenting line that […]