My guest blogger this week is Pam Champagne! Please give her a warm welcome.
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She’ll make him finish what he started—if they live through the night.
About a year ago during one of my random marathon cleanings, I found the journal I faithfully kept during my road trip from Maine to Alaska. Driving a GMC 250 with a camper riding piggyback and towing a Wells Fargo trailer, my husband and I drove to Alaska with full intentions to live there. Reading my entries brought back wonderful memories, and I also stumbled across the idea for Alaskan Heat hidden within its pages. The eighteen hundred miles of ALCAN (Alaskan/Canadian Highway) remains the highlight of my Alaskan experience. As I wrote Hawk and Sophie’s tale, other plots and characters popped in my head, so don’t be surprised to see more novellas with a similar setting.
At a campground in British Columbia one evening, I ventured to the Beta pool at Liard Hot Springs by myself, ever so conscious of the danger of bears. Swimming into that hot water put me in heaven. I’ll never forget it and want to experience it again some day. The isolation of the pool added to my enjoyment. The 700 meter depth made me wonder what might be lurking beneath the hot water.
We didn’t settle in Alaska. After the summer we drove the 5,000 miles back to Maine. We’d planned to buy something on 50 acres close enough to a city to find work. Not a possibility, as we discovered. Here we are back in Maine where we found exactly what we sought, proving the grass isn’t always greener…
She’ll make him finish what he started—if they live through the night.
About a year ago during one of my random marathon cleanings, I found the journal I faithfully kept during my road trip from Maine to Alaska. Driving a GMC 250 with a camper riding piggyback and towing a Wells Fargo trailer, my husband and I drove to Alaska with full intentions to live there. Reading my entries brought back wonderful memories, and I also stumbled across the idea for Alaskan Heat hidden within its pages. The eighteen hundred miles of ALCAN (Alaskan/Canadian Highway) remains the highlight of my Alaskan experience. As I wrote Hawk and Sophie’s tale, other plots and characters popped in my head, so don’t be surprised to see more novellas with a similar setting.
At a campground in British Columbia one evening, I ventured to the Beta pool at Liard Hot Springs by myself, ever so conscious of the danger of bears. Swimming into that hot water put me in heaven. I’ll never forget it and want to experience it again some day. The isolation of the pool added to my enjoyment. The 700 meter depth made me wonder what might be lurking beneath the hot water.
We didn’t settle in Alaska. After the summer we drove the 5,000 miles back to Maine. We’d planned to buy something on 50 acres close enough to a city to find work. Not a possibility, as we discovered. Here we are back in Maine where we found exactly what we sought, proving the grass isn’t always greener…
3 comments:
Wow, I bet your Alaskan adventure will spark many stories. That hot-spring pool looked inviting, until you mentioned it's depth and the "things" lurking below the surface. Sounds like a Stephen King plot LOL.
Hope everyone has a wonderful day!
Lu
I've heard Alaska is really beautiful and it's definitely on my world list. My Dad spent a couple of weeks up there fishing and MIL cruised up there. You make it sound absolutely wonderful.
I didn't realize "Alaskan Heat" was based on an actual trip.
Always fascinating to learn the seeds of a story, Pam. Glad you came to Maine instead of staying in Alaska.
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