Saturday afternoon I used the courtesy pickuptruck to do some shopping. Host Mark just in time upgraded the license plate to 2010, but as it showed still 2009, I was an easy mark for the State Trooper, who pulled me to the side of the road. I made a picture of him, while he was checking my Dutch drivers license and passport. But very strangely this very picture evaporated on my computer. So this Trooper looks older, less friendly than the one wished me a good time in Alaska after we separated. (Also it was raining a bit, not snowing).
Drove to Lake Wolf Airport, to see where it was. Maybe I contact cubtraining later to have some bushlanding training. Then to WalMart and get necessary items like film, stamps etc. Back home to my wonderful cabin at Lake Seymour, Mark and Sheila invited me for a clams-dinner.
Never ate them, but I am a big fish (and) meat lover. So I agreed quickly.
My amazing Cabin and Courtesy Pick Up Truck.
It was a bit raining - very good for the grass, so I spent time to find a rental car to drive up to Fairbanks Alaska, to see Vicky, the lady I met two years ago in New Holsteins SuperCub Fly In, when she came solo flying all the way from Alaska. So Monday I will pick up the car in Anchorage and drive up North.
But Saturday evening I walked up to my hosts and neighbors Mark and Sheila for the clams experience.
Mark and Sheila want me explicitly to mention on this blog, that it's just bed and no breakfast they will be running here in the future. All is set up to make guests as independant as possible: sleeping, cooking, laundering, bathtub, shower, fridge, freezer, boat, car and even free internet! And I am the lucky one they test it out on. To give them feedback I got invited for dinner . And I tell you: besides my home in Oosterland, Zeeland, the Netherlands, this completely equals the place where Cecilia and I stay when we are in Whitelaw, Hammond LA, Lodi CA, Minneapolis or in KC with Steve of Dana. What an incredible hospital people one finds at SuperCub.org. It makes me humble ...
O, the clams: here is my plate:
After dinner my hosts invited me to join me for a wine ride in the boat over the Lake. Nipping a good Merlot, and looking houses, children and some lonely dogs.
Back to the house I invited Sheila and Mark to a Skyping session with Cecilia, who was just waking up in the Netherlands. We had a lot of fun together.
Cecilia showed Mark and Sheila the garden, the room, outside the house, and posed next to the roses she received after her last show. Mark got interested in steaming pans he noticed in the kitchen.
After this fun exchange (Cecilia was invited to come to Alaska next year ..) There I was asked to explain what kind of work Cecilia and I do, as clowns. Luckily I could show a youtube video of us playing for a class of young children:
Then I said I had a good idea of what Sheila's job as secretary to an Elementary School Principal was, as I used to be a principal myself. But I could not have a picture of what Mark did with his Cub. So he also had a go at youtube and came up with this! Spectacular: spotting herring from the air for a group of fisherboats
Wow!
Finished the bottle of wine, made one last picture of the setting sun over the lake and went to to 'my' cabin ...What a magnificent people in this country! Slept like log. Period.
Finished the bottle of wine, made one last picture of the setting sun over the lake and went to to 'my' cabin ...What a magnificent people in this country! Slept like log. Period.
You are having way too much fun...
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