Today, I took a short cut to the post office. I decided to get a post office box and still pretend like I’m a Peace Corps volunteer. (Peace Corps inside joke).

Well, by now, you’ve followed me long enough to know that my lazy behind was not going to turn around and go another way! Time to follow Google Maps.

How great is it to live next door to a national park? It’s pretty amazing. Week one of our AmeriCorps orientation is done and today’s session ended with a deer sighting, just outside our dorm.

After one week of salmon jumping, seals eating (the salmon), Bald Eagle flyovers, deer, and bears …

Sitka, Alaska is beginning to feel like home. Well, if home is having the trash bin attacked by a bear and being moved inside, in a building further down the parking lot.

Note to self: (bears or no bears), when you’re from Detroit, you have to live by water! —GGT