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Old 05-20-2009, 08:51 PM
 
Location: Naptowne, Alaska
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Sweden has moose and they call them elk. It's totally weird. But I'd live there.
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Old 05-20-2009, 08:56 PM
 
Location: Interior alaska
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Sweden has moose and they call them elk. It's totally weird. But I'd live there.
Yeah, but your cheating, you heart is already there!
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Old 05-21-2009, 11:52 AM
 
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But you are right, there are people who will complain no matter where they hang their hat.
I can't
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Old 06-29-2009, 10:25 PM
 
Location: Wherever they send me... (Family are based in Oregon)
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This Wednesday my wife and our 3 children move into a rented log cabin in Palmer.
It's not the log cabin I envisaged building from scratch on the land on Deadman
Lake, but it's a start in the right direction...
Whilst Palmer isn't exactly 'isolated', it IS away from Anchorage...
I imagine the commute is going to be a killer in the winter, but I'm only doing it
three days a week.
It's been a long haul just getting to this point with the family in tow.
I arrived in April with nothing. I bought a cheap suburban for $700 and that
threw a rod and died on the Glenn Highway. So I replaced it with a cheap
Subaru Loyale for $650 which is running okay so far. I saved up the deposit
and the first month's rent for the cabin and I've shipped the family up to
join me. I've also signed my son up with a pediatrician at Matsu Pediatrics
and we're going to be trialing him on a new therapy for his bowel disease -
6MP - a low-dose chemotherapy.

The one thing that worries me is what we'll do if (when) my current
vehicle dies... So we're currently saving up for a second cheap car
as a back up.

Alaska is scary when you have no support network to call on.
You're really on your own, even if you are on the road network
and with gas and electric supplied to the cabin - I still have
anxiety attacks about having dragged my family up here.

But we're here now. No retreat, no surrender....





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Old 06-29-2009, 10:55 PM
 
Location: Palmer
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Wow! You actually did it. It's one thing to talk, but quite another to take action.
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Old 06-29-2009, 11:15 PM
 
Location: Casa Grande, AZ
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This Wednesday my wife and our 3 children move into a rented log cabin in Palmer.
It's not the log cabin I envisaged building from scratch on the land on Deadman
Lake, but it's a start in the right direction...
Whilst Palmer isn't exactly 'isolated', it IS away from Anchorage...
I imagine the commute is going to be a killer in the winter, but I'm only doing it
three days a week.
It's been a long haul just getting to this point with the family in tow.
I arrived in April with nothing. I bought a cheap suburban for $700 and that
threw a rod and died on the Glenn Highway. So I replaced it with a cheap
Subaru Loyale for $650 which is running okay so far. I saved up the deposit
and the first month's rent for the cabin and I've shipped the family up to
join me. I've also signed my son up with a pediatrician at Matsu Pediatrics
and we're going to be trialing him on a new therapy for his bowel disease -
6MP - a low-dose chemotherapy.

The one thing that worries me is what we'll do if (when) my current
vehicle dies... So we're currently saving up for a second cheap car
as a back up.

Alaska is scary when you have no support network to call on.
You're really on your own, even if you are on the road network
and with gas and electric supplied to the cabin - I still have
anxiety attacks about having dragged my family up here.

But we're here now. No retreat, no surrender....




Cute place!!!

Imagine with what you are feeling now, if you were more remote with your family as planned... Sometimes it is best to take baby steps, before making the giant leap and get the ducks in order, especially with children, and even more with someone with a medical problem, but you know that...
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Old 06-29-2009, 11:49 PM
 
Location: Fairbanks
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Looking forward to meeting you one day.
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Old 06-30-2009, 06:14 AM
 
Location: Dangling from a mooses antlers
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Go luck. If you want to keep that Subaru going the first thing you need to do is make sure the timing belt was recently changed. The Loyale is one of their long lasting models. I'd buy another one if I needed it. Change the fluilds and check on that timing belt and you'll be good to go.

All things Subaru found here:

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/index.php
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Old 06-30-2009, 07:27 AM
 
Location: Too far from Alaska
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I hate grammatical and spelling police on line. Mainly because my hands are too slow for my head and my fingers are too fat for the laptop. And my spelling skills are stellar and my grammar is as perfect as Sister Mary Gerard and Sister Ann David could make them.

Of course, Sister Mary Gerard was of the opinion that left handed children were the spawn of the devil. Hence my moniker located below my name.
We all know who the real Prince of Darkness is since 1979...
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Old 06-30-2009, 11:28 AM
 
Location: Wasilla, Alaska
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Cute place!!!

Imagine with what you are feeling now, if you were more remote with your family as planned... Sometimes it is best to take baby steps, before making the giant leap and get the ducks in order, especially with children, and even more with someone with a medical problem, but you know that...
I could not agree more. Take it one step at a time. Do not try to do everything at once, and always have a backup plan in case things do not work out as expected.
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