New guy from Alaska

We have a small river in our back woods(runs through the back of the property)...u can catch burbot and grayling in there.

 

Ah dude, you have my dream setup! How do you afford livin' out there?

 

We only have about 15 acres but it suits us well..

 

You work on the slope or something?

 

15 acres and a wilderness!

 

Kind of a long story...my dad is the only parent left between the wife and i...her parents both died when she was under 20 and left her and her sister an estate in oregon. We lived there for a while and then rented the place out and moved here. I work for other people 9 to 5 sometimes and when i get sick of what ever bs i move on...i work a lot for myself whether it be turning wrenches building or running my saw mill...things like that.

 

I sense an entrepreneurial lean! Tell me more! What kind of stuff do you build?

 

Being mortgage free really frees up a lot of income..i feel bad talking about it as if im gloating. For the record i know what its like to struggle..and respect those who work so hard to make their lives turn.

 

I try to build anything that comes to mind...my latest interests are log building and timber framing. But i do things like leather working too. Im no pro mechanic or welder but get along fine there too....id get laughed at in the pro industry lol. My main thing i liked to build was offroad/crawler stuff and i had a banshee that was set up to drag and hill climb. I used to do a lot of sheet metal work too...have had 2 chopped 52 chev sedans.. i got out of offroad in my late 20s due to a bad accident but now at 43 im gettin itchy again lol

 

I didn't mean to pry. I just feel homesick for that wild land sometimes. I would love to take my wife up there for a vacation one of these years soon. Prolly take the fairy up to Valdez, poke around for a week or so and head back. That would be SO FUN to take the truck up there! Can you bring dogs on the fairy?

 

Ur not prying...i just didnt want to come off as a snob. Ask away!

 

Dude a lot of you Alaskan folk are kind of heroes to some crazy folks in the lower 48!

 

I love valdez! I have a friend with a boat that takes out for halibut. Last i heard u can take dogs but they have some weird stipulations...like u have to leave ur dog in the car?? Id read up on it as after covid i know things have changed. We've never taken the fairy...always drove straight up from west coast.

 

So many interesting people up there!

 

It's such a long slog of a drive though. 'Course I was a kid then. . .

 

MANY. I guess im one of them lol. When we first moved up here we were approached by history channel to be filmed...they wanted to follow our lifestyle and document me trapping. We declined and they picked up a family with a bunch of kids...we are childless.

 

It IS a long drive..wife actually became road sick along with our b and t hound on our second trip. Thankfully we shipped a container so it was a comfy drive in the truck...no tow! Lol

 

They'd have to pay me a LOT of MONEY to follow my happy ass around!

: )B

 

First time up the AlCan was with a 1970 Bronco pulling a trailer with 7 and 8 (me) year old kids in the back.

 

The starting pay was 1500 per person per day of film...then per ratings the pay goes up, i believe the top pay per day was around 8k