Saturday, August 22, 2009
Alaska....Again
So here I am back in Alaska again. I flew into anchorage after one night in Seattle and checked in with Penair airlines for a flight to Unalakleet and then had a flight scheduled from Unalakleet to Koyuk. We arrived in Unalakleet and they unloaded all the baggage onto a wooden pallet and everyone dug through the pile next to the plane to find their bags. Our bags and a few other peoples were not there. We went into the terminal and were told that they didn't have room for all the bags and ours got bumped. They said "don't worry they will probably come in on tomorrows flight". This was a problem since we were supposed to fly to a different village, also all of our clothes and sleeping gear were not there. Our next flight was with Frontier so we headed over there and told them our bags were still in Anchorage at Penair. They said they would call and send someone over to pick them up and they could be flown in on the afternoon Frontier flight, but we would have to pay freight charges (about $300) We said go for it. So we wandered around Unalakleet all day. I walked down by the river and watched the fisherman heading out. I also watched a native hanging a bunch of fish strips up to dry. We wandered back over to Frontier later that day when the afternoon flight came in and they took us to the back and there were half our bags only! So we still couldn't move on to Koyuk. This was one whole day wasted. We eventually got our bags the next day and made it to Koyuk, then on to Elim which right by some very nice ocean cliffs. I took some time and walked along the cliffs and got soaked in the process. Now we are in a village called Stebbins and I am just sitting around waiting for people to come in for eye exams. The building we are in has fast wireless internet, but no running water and the bathroom is a honeybucket with a toilet seat on it. Only in Alaska.
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