Ferrari on dirt roads; millionaires with outhouses; hundred pound fish; nets the size of cars (drift netting); clothing any kind works so long as you are comfortable and four guys that came up from Seattle on their personal watercrafts. Yes folks, you read the last line correctly - our lives are boring by comparison.
Yesterday while visiting Ron at a camp site we heard about four guys that started on their road trip via Seadoo PWC'S and should be in Kodiak by tonight with the goal of making Nome and crossing over to Russia before the trip is said and done. Guess what - us three guys did or rather attempted to do the same thing - 3 years ago (google PWC and Trawlercat or Wet Dog and Trawlercat) and you'll get our stories. We called John the expedition leader of our group and told him about our discovery. These guys are doing it with the support we believe of NBC or some other television sponsorship. They have planned about a dozen episodes; so, in addition to your Deadliest Catch or Ice Road Truckers you may be seeing Dangerous Waters or whatever name they stay with.
Today is definitely laundry time as I've been either recycling, doing without or mismatching garments since arriving in Anchorage - I'm down to a pair of shorts and a recycled t-shirt. I packed for this trip like I packed for my Pacific crest trail - extremely light. My friend Petr runs a tight schedule so with all the fishing, visiting friends and just plain old road tripping (Alaska style) from the comforts of a Ferrari I just don't have the time. Yesterday we put about 480 miles on the Ferrari zipping down to Homer first for some halibut fishing. The Ferrari ended up on occasions on some dirt roads, farm fields, fish camps, Homer spit but, everywhere we went it stirred up quite a bit of pointing, picture taking and some more conversations. This may be the only Ferrari to ever have done a road trip like this - but then again, this is Alaska where people use their stuff and max it out to fit the situation.
The three of us, Petr, Ron and I limited out on our halibuts and so did everyone else on board. Sorry to say they weren't of the huge jurrasic park size expected. Today, we wine and dine on Alaska king crab (from a previous trip); tomorrow we make it out to Whittier again to pull up the shrimp pots (five) that will hopefully be full of the prawn variety. Last night we assembly line style vacuumed packed all the fish and in time flat then met up with Ivan and Anna for some late night drinks (Czech style).
My work seems all done here. Time to inquire about throwing the jeep on a ferry and getting my butt home to Patti.
See you on the road!
Trawlercat
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