AT#287 - Travel to Alaska

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2011

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The Amateur Traveler talks to Joe Bickley of Alaska Backcountry Consulting about traveling to Alaska, particularly the interior and back country. Alaska is a bug state and Joe lives in the center of it near Fairbanks but at the northern end of the Alaskan road system. Joe gives us some directions on places to go to see Alaska’s vistas and encounter its wildlife. He takes us above the tree line at Denali National Park (aka Mt McKinley) which is not quite half the size of the state of Rhode Island. At that Denali is not even the largest National Park in Alaska. That honor goes to Wrangell-St. Elias. Alaska also has the largest National Forest which is Tongass National Forest. Joe takes us to one of his favorite spots off the Denali “highway”. He also directs us down to the Kenai Peninsula known for great fishing and also to the town of Homer with its artist culture. Learn what some Alaskans call those bells that a tenderfoot might wear to scare off bears. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good
0:08.0	in my passport photo. Amateur Traveler episode 287. Today the amateur traveler talks about
0:15.7	backcountry and bears as we go to Alaska. I'm your
0:24.0	more cathedral.
0:25.0	I know that I should be heading home
0:29.0	but maybe not maybe not
0:31.0	today.
0:32.0	Welcome to the Amateur Traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen.
0:35.6	Before we get into this week's interview I do have one piece of self-promotion
0:39.9	and then three news stories. The self-promotion is that today, the day that this
0:44.1	episode came out July 2nd, is the sixth anniversary of the amateur traveler. So
0:49.6	for all of you who've been listening for a long time. Thanks so much for listening.
0:54.2	In the first news story, the TSA is in a bit of trouble because apparently someone was
0:59.2	able to get through security using a stolen boarding pass and an ID that was not their own.
1:06.6	In fact, the boarding pass didn't even have the right date on it.
1:10.8	And then speaking of air travel, one airline is trying to make of air travel experience more quiet and pleasant if you are in first
1:16.9	class, they're going to ban children or at least screaming babies and that is Malaysia Airlines.
1:24.1	And then finally a news story from Taiwan that's a little scary if you're a blogger.
1:28.5	A blogger was given a suspended sentence for two years, a 30 days in detention. a
1:33.4	suspended sentence for two years a 30 days in detention and a
1:36.1	200,000 new Taiwan dollar fine about $7,000
1:40.3	because he wrote a review that said that the noodles in a particular restaurant were too
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