TrueU Adventures

I'm really busy today, but here are just a few thoughts from my first few days here in Juneau.

• It's cloudy here. I live in Colorado Springs, where we get about 300 sunny days a year. Juneau probably has that many cloudy days per year. I can tell I've gotten used to the sun. The clouds, though they make the mountains look that much more majestic -- can get just a little bit overwhelming. But strangely, you get used to it. Or I do, at least. And beautiful evenings, where the sun shines for an hour like it did tonight, make all the gray weather worth it.
  
  
• Thank goodness for wool socks. I'm not sure what I would do without these things. Wool socks have this magical power that allows them to get wet, but still keep your feet warm. Juneau is not only a cloudy place, but it's rainy, too. It's wet -- a lot. Wool socks, especially when hiking, are a must.
  
  
• Extended daylight = more energy. Maybe it's not science, but it seems like I have a lot of energy at night when I'm here. The sun doesn't set this time of year till around 10:15 or 10:30. And the sky is never completely dark. At 1 a.m. I could have taken a walk on the beach next to our campsite -- our staff team did an overnight camping trip, preceded by some fishing and crabbing -- without any trouble.

OK, so those thoughts were mostly geographical in nature -- but what can you expect from a guy with a useless social science degree … in geography. I gotta use it sometime.

Well, that's all for now. Hopefully, I'll be posting some pictures from yesterday's fishing expedition. I caught my first fish ever yesterday.

Oh, and here's something: a link to what it looks like where I'm living -- the University of Alaska Southeast campus housing.