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June 24, 2009
Gone Fishing
If you have come to these pages looking for fresh content or pictures of babies, I'm sorry to report that you will not be satisfied today. Robbi, Alden, and I are on the tundra near Bristol Bay, Alaska, fishing commercially for salmon with Robbi's family. If you want to picture us now, we are in all likelihood dressed in kneeboots, waders, rubber pants, raincoats, wool caps, and gloves that go up to our elbows. We probably smell bad from sweat and fish blood. We are probably tired and hungry, and yet pleased to be in such a strange, distant, beautiful place. Our Alaska is not the dramatic mountainous one you've seen in infomercials. We don't see icebergs floating by. We look out the window and see endless knobbly tundra, scrubby Alders, winding tundra streams, wildflowers, ptarmigan, caribou, and the occasional grizzly. We have no paved roads or public utilities. We drink rainwater that runs off the roof. We run a diesel generator when we need power. We play a lot of Pinochle.
If it is July 1 or after and if you want to see what we were up to before we left for Alaska, go to Tor.com and look for the various sections of Cory Doctorow's Makers, which is being released on Tor.com over the next six months. Every section of the book will feature an illustration conceived by Idiots'Books and drawn by Robbi. We are sorry to be missing the launch, but perhaps you can check it out on our behalf.
With that, we're truly off (this is being posted from the Anchorage airport, the last bastion of connectivity we'll find for the next three weeks). Be well. And enjoy your running water.
Posted by bogenamp at June 24, 2009 07:52 PM