The semi-elderly like myself may remember the 90s TV show Northern Exposure. It was about a young doctor from New York who ends up in a small town in Alaska. The fictional town of Cicily is said to be modeled on Talkeetna, a short detour off the road the road north from Anchorage to Denali. We visited there 20 years ago and on this trip. It has changed a lot and not for the better. It once felt like a remote outpost. It's bigger and commercialized now, fed by tourists from the cruise lines' land excursions.
I'm scraping the Alaska pictures. However, today is my precious Madeleine's second birthday. I plan to stop by her house on my way home from work to record the occasion.
I'm scraping the Alaska pictures. However, today is my precious Madeleine's second birthday. I plan to stop by her house on my way home from work to record the occasion.
It does have a sort of tourists trap sensibility to it.
ReplyDeleteWow, I keep receiving these nudges that I am older than I seem to think I am. Here's a new one, semi-elderly. I remember Northern Exposure, used to like it a lot too. It was taken off the air way too soon. Suddenly I'm feeling like Walter Brennan, by golly!
ReplyDeleteI remember it, too!
ReplyDeleteThat show aired over here as well, but it wasn't for me.
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