Alaska Trip - Prologue

In the middle of the hot summer, Jim & Eileen decided to go to Alaska. But this was only the beginning! Little did they know how much planning, negotiating, hassling and compromising it would involve. After several weeks of preparations, the brave crew embarked: I am Cathy, the scribe; Jim is the maniac driver; and Eileen is the country music fiend (who declined to comment). It was the 27th of July, in 1990. All of them were ignorant (except for Eileen, the all-knowing) as to what would soon befall them - or their little Mazda GLC...