Alaska trip: what to do, what to see?

[wild.irish]

i'm a travel-thread whore of the day ;)

anyway, me and a couple of people here at work were throwing ideas where to escape for a few days, and we thought of Alaska. what would you guys recommend to see, where to go, which city i mean. and when to go, like what time of year. Ryan, you used to live there, right?
well, any ideas are welcome!

and no, i don't suggest driving there :D

[stu]

Just watch the episode of Insomniac with Dave Attel where he went to Alaska, that's what I do whenever I want to go somewhere. lol

[wild.irish]

never heard of it, sorry. :) is it available to rent in blockbuster or something?

[stu]

It's on Comedy Central late at night. It's a guy who sleeps during the day and stays up all night. So he just goes to each state and stays up all night and finds things to do at those hours. He's a comedian by the way, so it's a pretty funny show.

[Steve_C]

i'm sure you can download the episodes somewhere

[ryanman]

Go during the summer between May and August. Do you like to fish? Go sightseeing? Boat rides? What do you want to do?

[RiceNmotioN]

go fishing in your fish tank...i hear they spotted some big fish

[wild.irish]

i like deep-sea fishing (boat fishing). i also wouldn't mind visiting some old-time gold-rush towns on Yukon (sp?). and otherwise i don't really know what i'd do there :)

[David]

Me and my family drove up there when I was 10, we went all the way up to deadhorse (about as north as you can go) safe to say im never going back there... :D

fishing is good though

[InRox01]

Fish.. Catch some radiation from cherynobl? :) i'm a travel-thread whore of the day ;)

anyway, me and a couple of people here at work were throwing ideas where to escape for a few days, and we thought of Alaska. what would you guys recommend to see, where to go, which city i mean. and when to go, like what time of year. Ryan, you used to live there, right?
well, any ideas are welcome!

and no, i don't suggest driving there :D

[wild.irish]

i don't think radioactive fish can be caught in Alaska!

and yeah, I realise i might mark this place as a no-return one, but I am still curious to go. something tells me i might actually like it there ;)

[InRox01]

no cherynobl radiation lingers there. ive herd.

[ryanman]

no cherynobl radiation lingers there. ive herd.
I've never heard that shit and I've lived there for 23 years of my life. You're on the wrong side of the world noob.




ANYWAYS go to the Kenai river for fishing, HUGE King Salmon can be caught there, you can also catch charter boats out of Homer, Kenai, Seward, wherever and they'll take you out and get you some big ass halibut.

[InRox01]

I just saw a documentary on it last week. WATCH HBo youll see it too. FRom europe - alaska its said to linger.. not that its anything to worry about. just funny

[wild.irish]

Ryan, is it catch and release? damn, for some reason i instantly got hungry ;)

InRox, i should be Chernobyl-proof - it's our good old Soviet radiation, shouldn't do me any harm ;)

[ryanman]

Nope, you can bring it all home. They'll pack it in dry ice and ship it to your doorstep.

[ryanman]

I just saw a documentary on it last week. WATCH HBo youll see it too. FRom europe - alaska its said to linger.. not that its anything to worry about. just funny
Yeah, Documentary's are full of shit. My family has lived there since the 1930's and none of them have ever heard that crap.

[wild.irish]

that's great! thanks for hints!

[Weston]

You should go see Ryanman's museum of broken DSMs... :rofl:

[ryanman]

BTW I'll probably be in Alaska this summer also, gonna do some fishing myself. Lemme know when/if you're going.

[ryanman]

You should go see Ryanman's museum of broken DSMs... :rofl:
I don't have a museum of broken DSM's dipshit. I don't even own a broken DSM. STFU already.

[Weston]

I guess I should have clarified... most of us would say a car is "broken" if it has a cloud of white smoke coming out the exhaust... do DSM owners refer to that as "oil injection"?

[STIBungy]

One sight to look for would be Ryanman's mustang. You'll spot it just like you'd spot a yeti.

[Weston]

Maybe you can find his boat too...

[wild.irish]

i feel kinda stupid, cause i don't know where this story about boats and stuff comes from. anyway, i'm planning a vacation, not a spy mission to find out about Ryan's boats ;NutKick; so don't count on me ;)

anyway, Ryan, I'll let you know, i probably will start planning this in spring. so we'll see.

[Steve_C]

damn, for some reason i instantly got hungry ;)

i hear you there brother, huge halibut got my mouth watering

[ryanman]

I guess I should have clarified... most of us would say a car is "broken" if it has a cloud of white smoke coming out the exhaust... do DSM owners refer to that as "oil injection"?
NONE of my DSM's have white clouds of smoke coming from the exhaust dumbfuck. Seriously, get a clue. :rolleyes:

[ryanman]

One sight to look for would be Ryanman's mustang. You'll spot it just like you'd spot a yeti.
No you won't, it's in my garage. You 2 buttlovers are pretty fucking ignorant here lately. Jealous fucks.

[ryanman]

i feel kinda stupid, cause i don't know where this story about boats and stuff comes from. anyway, i'm planning a vacation, not a spy mission to find out about Ryan's boats ;NutKick; so don't count on me ;)

anyway, Ryan, I'll let you know, i probably will start planning this in spring. so we'll see.
Don't worry about them, just a bunch of jealous dumbfucks.


Ok, just let me know.

[ryanman]

No more porn for Jiiiihad.

[Weston]

NONE of my DSM's have white clouds of smoke coming from the exhaust dumbfuck. Seriously, get a clue. :rolleyes:

I guess you were just fogging for mosquitos that time at the 108th ave park meet, huh? :D

[ryanman]

I guess you were just fogging for mosquitos that time at the 108th ave park meet, huh? :D
Ok Weston, seriously, that was 2 engines ago. That was a 195,000 mile motor being boosted at 25psi, c'mon man. *sigh*




I swear you guys like to piss me off on purpose. :cry:

[David]

Ok Weston, seriously, that was 2 engines ago.
wtf, that meet was like...6 months ago

:rofl:

[Weston]

...
I swear you guys like to piss me off on purpose. :cry:

Yeah, that's what I was going for. :rofl: But don't feel bad... Hung gets it worse, and David is owned like every day. :D

[David]

you cant :cry: about somebody owning you until you pass out and/or do a gh3y pose as I have recently discovered

[ryanman]

wtf, that meet was like...6 months ago

:rofl:
Umm, yeah, and? Actually I'm on my 2nd engine. Firs engine I did nothing to except swap it over into my car, that's it. It was a heaping pile of shit but it still made 230hp/250tq on 2 1/2 cylinders, lol.

[ryanman]

you cant :cry: about somebody owning you until you pass out and/or do a gh3y pose as I have recently discovered
OK I'll do a gay pose tomorrow and post it and let you guys have fun.

[LeonZ]

no cherynobl radiation lingers there. ive herd.

Umm no. I was born by Chernobyl and I was 30 miles away from the reactor when it exploded and that area is fine so I'm sure you're safe.

[wild.irish]

:fu: thread jackers! lol

:D

[ryanman]

Umm no. I was born by Chernobyl and I was 30 miles away from the reactor when it exploded and that area is fine so I'm sure you're safe.
For serious?

[LeonZ]

For serious?

yea i was 2

[w00dr0w]

Umm no. I was born by Chernobyl and I was 30 miles away from the reactor when it exploded and that area is fine so I'm sure you're safe.

That area is fine? Maybe you should check this out. All 27 pages of it.
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html

Sorry to jack your thread holmes. :Beer: My buddy's brother just moved out to Alaska a few months ago. I'll hit him up with some info for ya.

[LeonZ]

i meant my home town is fine.

[wild.irish]

the major radioactive impact was actually mostly felt in Byelorussia. It's where the nuclear waste cloud has drifted to. most of Ukraine is actually safe. Chernobyl is in Ukraine. Leo, i don't remember what's the name of your hometown?

(guess i'm jacking my own thread now ;) )