Even though I hadn’t quite understood, in a way I had uncovered a deep buried fantasy to trek the Alaskan landscape. This realization is stunning and hard to process really. In my young twenty two year old brain, I always concluded that to go to Alaska there would need to be some validated purpose. If I were a scientist, or a fisherman, or a photographer I would have a reason to go see Alaska. It had never crossed my mind that I could go to Alaska, simply to go. I am not smart, nor pretty, and not exceptional, and yet these are all conditional. I have chosen to be this way, and just as easily I can choose to be something else. A girl on her own, setting out, a lone traveler, independent and harboring fears worth losing sleep over. I feel absolutely drunk with the prospect of possibility. The afternoon was a steady blur of cake, coffee, a beer, some Advil for the headacheand an attempt at a nap, well wishes from aunt’s uncles and family friends. - Danielle Rohr Denali Skies A Seasonal Girl's Alaskan Odyssey



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