This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.
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I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.
Really, I didn't like Alaska. It rained, almost every day, at least 300 days out of the year.
To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.
Going to the Arctic was immense for me.
I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.
I went out to Mount Kilimanjaro, which I thought was very beautiful, but there were a lot of people there.
There's a lot of people around Alaska now who are actually running the place who claim to just have gone there for the summer once 30 years ago. And that seems to be what happens.
I managed to take a family trip to the Bahamas and it was quite lovely.
When we lived in Juneau, Alaska, it was a town of about 7,000 people, and totally isolated; the only way to get to it was by ship.
I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.
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