Tom's View

Day 3.  Three days since we left Indy, and at least that many stops at Starbucks.  (You may recall that for Sandy's blog for our trip to Switzerland her first picture was at a Starbucks.)  Here in Homer, we have become the taxi company's biggest customer - we're fast friends with Jake and Joey, the cabbies.  Joey picked us up at the airport and after a brief stop to drop off our bags, he took us to the Salty Dawg Saloon.  Every square inch of wall, ceiling, post, you name it, is covered with $1 dollar bills.  Sort of sets the tone for our stop here.

Hardest part of the trip so far has been getting used to the 4 hour time difference.  That alone would not be so bad, but combine that with sunrise being at 3:30 am and sunset being at 12:30 am (yes, am), it gets to be quite confusing when you wake up at what you think is 7 am, and it makes sense until you find it's really 3 am and the sun is starting to rise.

As Sandy said, we did go foraging for moose yesterday.  Can't be much fun to be a moose.  First, you have that funny name.  Then you stand around in 2 feet of marsh to eat.  On the other hand, we had an excellent breakfast of smoked salmon (surprise there) and cream cheese in a nice little bakery called Moreau Bakery.



The Time Bandit

Then off to Halibut Cove.  On the way out of the harbor we went by the Time Bandit - a fishing boat that is one of the "stars" of the TV series "Deadliest Catch".  That show takes place a few hundred miles west of here at Dutch Harbor in the Western Aleutian Islands.