Yikes, inside a week to go to launch! Our last Saturday in San Diego, last time I'll lock the gate for the Murray Ridge Park Gate Crew, last Saturday I'll see Henry......
Kathy made all of our lodging reservations yesterday, so that's all done. We have to be in Prince Rupert, BC, at 3:30 am on July 28th to begin loading for the six hour ferry ride to Ketchikan. This ferry only runs three times a week, so we can't afford to miss it. Hopefully we aren't being too ambitious in our driving plan, with two dogs and a U-Haul truck. We are planning three days to get to Bellingham WA, then another three days to get to Prince Rupert.
We are still lacking the special auto insurance card we need to drive into Canada. It should show up on the mail before we leave; just another detail we have to control over!
We still don't have lodging on Prince of Wales Island, a bit disturbing. The dogs are an issue, although the general lack of year-round rentals is the bigger issue. The couple interested in buying the house we want to rent arrive tomorrow to see it for the first time. Hoping they don't want it, and then we can lease it for at least a year. We are keeping our fingers crossed.
It's an interesting time to be leaving, and to be going through this grand move, with federal budget crisis looming, city and county and stated redistricting, mayoral and council member elections heating up, and hear we are moving to a big island with a total of 6,000 residents, sure to be some de-compression issues in this move! It would be nice if I could get involved in local government in one fashion or another. Although Alaska is divided up into boroughs, which are nearly the same as counties, Prince of Wales Island is in the super-large 'Unorganized Borough,' which is administered by the State:
The Unorganized Borough is that part of the U.S. state of Alaska not contained in any of its 18 organized boroughs. It encompasses over half of Alaska's area, 970,500 km² (374,712 mi²), an area larger than any other US state. As of the 2000 census 13% of Alaskans (81,803 people) reside in it.
Unique among the United States, Alaska is not entirely subdivided into organized county equivalents. In 1970, the United States Census Bureau divided the unorganized borough into 11 census areas to facilitate census taking in the vast unorganized area.
More info on it can be found here: Prince of Wales - Hyder Census Area
Bathroom repairs done, mostly check; backyard fence finally stained, check; we are getting there! I'm hoping to be able to update this blog from the road, and then the real fun starts!
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