00:00 with my takeout 200 miles to a remote Alaska village to have dinner with my fiance.
00:04 Fiance and I live 200 miles away from the nearest store. I just so happened to be in Anchorage the
00:08 past four days for work. I was flying home and wanted to bring something special, so I got some
00:12 Olive Garden takeout. My cousin flew me home. My uppa, my grandfather, was also on board.
00:17 We flew through Lake Clark Pass. Oh my gosh, it was absolutely beautiful. This turquoise water,
00:22 that's Lake Clark, and it's the sign that we're almost home. Also, look how glassy, calm Lake
00:28 Clark is. When I flew to Anchorage on Monday, my goodness, it was one of the most turbulent flights
00:32 I've been on in a long time. The flight was just a little over an hour, and here's the sped up
00:37 version of our landing. I also mentioned it's all gravel strips. We have no paved runways here.
00:42 They're all privately owned. Anyways, I got to tag along on a freight flight, so this was full of
00:46 just freight. It's my cousin Sam. He's unloading it all, but it was all worth it because my fiance
00:51 and I had the best Olive Garden dinner date on our porch. Well worth the airplane ride.
00:57 I get the question all the time, "How do you get big items when you live in a remote Alaska village
01:02 that is only accessible by airplane?" Not just any airplane, but small airplane. Depending on what it
01:06 is, it can still fit on our aircraft. Like, look at this boat that they're putting into the plane.
01:11 I have seen four-wheelers and snow machines, couches, ovens, fridges, and freezers. All of
01:17 those types of items come off our airplanes, but for anything bigger, honestly, it needs to come
01:22 by barge, which it does take a lot longer because it has to come out of Homer and goes on three
01:26 different barges before it actually gets here. But that's how we get some larger items.
01:29 Let's get ready for a 6 a.m. departure on our resort in remote Alaska. I was at the resort a
01:50 little after 5 and was greeted by my parents' cat. Tours normally depart around 8 o'clock or 9.
01:55 Sometimes we leave at 6 a.m. to beat the crowds at Brooks because it's the busy season. Sometimes
02:00 there's hours wait to get on the platform. I enjoyed the view because there was no fog.
02:05 First morning without fog in actually a long time, maybe about a week actually.
02:10 Clients get sack breakfast and sack lunch today, and for breakfast we made breakfast burritos and
02:15 blueberry muffins, and they all had to be ready by 5.45 this morning. I went down to the bay to
02:21 go see them off. Oh my goodness, it was absolutely gorgeous down there. Dad is the pilot taking this
02:26 group out this morning, and he won't be back till about dinner time tonight. I tell people all the
02:31 time one of the benefits of staying at our resort is that we're the middle ground between Anchorage
02:35 and Brooks Camp, which means that we get there a lot earlier than a lot of the other people do,
02:40 especially when we're leaving at 6 a.m. Again, sometimes it's a two to three hour wait to get
02:45 onto the platforms to see the bears.
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