Every summer, our family travels 4,000 miles to run a commercial salmon fishing operation in an off-the-grid corner of the Alaskan tundra—Robbi’s annual summertime destination since she was 18 months old.
I know it's almost time to leave for Alaska when Robbi buys a lot of butter. Because just can't buy butter on the tundra. Briefly (because most of you already know), our family spends about five weeks each summer living in a cabin on the shores of Bristol Bay, which...
Robbi has traveled to the Alaskan tundra every summer since 1976. I've been going up since 2000. Alden has been ten times so far, Kato eight, and Augie six. Jasper just made his inaugural visit. For all of those years, we have lived with Robbi's family and various...
It's been a while now, so the details are hazy and I feel more emboldened than I otherwise would to add a bunch of extra adjectives. As we do every summer, we packed coolers full of vegetables, drove to the airport, and took our questionable talents to Alaska. Were we...
And we're off. To points distant but certainly known. This will be Robbi's 39th summer on the Tundra, my 15th, Alden's 9th, Kato's 7th, and Augie's 5th. We know this drill well. We leave. We drive to DC. We fly to Seattle. We fly to Anchorage. We spend 14 hours at the...
