Comments on: The Sun In Homer, Alaska

By: Luke G

Luke G — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:58 +0000

I was born in Homer and raised in California, but I still have family there (know the Jays?) and get to visit every couple years. For me, it's almost unspeakably moving. Alaska seems to be on a different scale than anyplace else I've been. Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming – all beautiful, vast, impressive, but Alaska is a land apart.

Alaska just seems to have that -er…the mountains are bigger, sky wider and brighter (in the summer!), storms heavier, and the sun even sweeter.

Man, it's time to go back.

By: bfeld

bfeld — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:54 +0000

Luke – I so agree. I love it up here, especially when the sun graces us with its presence.

I don’t know the Jays – we’ve had a place up here for six years and keep a very low profile. My wife Amy grew up (until she was in Anchor Point and she still knows a few people there, but no family.

By: Luke G

Luke G — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:54 +0000

So it goes – decent view, btw. My next favorite thing about Homer in particular is that every house I've been in has local art and a musical instrument – I've seen a piano in all but one cabin way past town.

I'm enjoying it vicariously – cheers.

By: Nancy C

Nancy C — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:55:54 +0000

Ah – one of my most favorite places on earth!

Your blog and Twitters bring back many good memories of my time in Alaska during high school (I'll pass on sharing the years) and my recent trips back to Whittier, Homer and Tutka Bay.

My thoughts in the summer always turn to the Greatland, but I can skip those long dark winters for sure.

Thanks for sharing.

By: Nancy C

Nancy C — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:12:19 +0000

Ah – one of my most favorite places on earth!

Your blog and Twitters bring back many good memories of my time in Alaska during high school (I'll pass on sharing the years) and my recent trips back to Whittier, Homer and Tutka Bay.

My thoughts in the summer always turn to the Greatland, but I can skip those long dark winters for sure.

Thanks for sharing.

By: Luke G

Luke G — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 22:37:29 +0000

I'm enjoying it vicariously – cheers.

By: Brad Feld

Brad Feld — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:52:38 +0000

Luke â I so agree.Â I love it up here, especially when the sun graces us with its presence.Â

I donât know the Jays â weâve had a place up here for six years and keep a very low profile.Â My wife Amy grew up (until she was in Anchor Point and she still knows a few people there, but no family.

By: Luke G

Luke G — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:27:33 +0000

Alaska just seems to have that -er…the mountains are bigger, sky wider and brighter (in the summer!), storms heavier, and the sun even sweeter.

Man, it's time to go back.