Our trip to Alaska proved to be the most memorable, and the scariest trip I’ve ever taken… Memorable because of the awesome adventure it was – just Greg and me, a tent, and some provisions, hunting for bear in a location I was certain no other human had ever stepped foot upon. Our pilot was to return for us in three days, we just hoped he had remembered to program our GPS coordinates, and that he didn’t loose them. Scariest because we had been left alone in what the outfitter described as “bear territory”… I envisioned a bear behind every bush, literally fearing for my life!   Our campsite was…

Although I have spent all my married life in the country, when I was growing up my family lived close to town in a subdivision. I have two sisters and it’s very safe to say that none of us were very in-tune with nature, but of the three of us I considered myself the tomboy of the group. When I began to date my husband, Greg, I found out rather quickly that he was all about anything and everything that had to do with the outdoors. But, he must have seen that tomboy side of me and thought I’d enjoy all of his outdoor adventures as much as he did…