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    Quote Originally Posted by Abbey View Post
    We should all get an off-grid place together. Though I really have nothing much to offer...
    We always talked about a DP get together - ALASKA and Rick's cabin is the place. It would be some time that we would NEVER forget!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by darin View Post
    Unsure - but it will probably look a little like this - and have outbuildings, barn, livestock holding areas and grazing areas. And chickens.

    northern Arizona would work
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    Quote Originally Posted by jimnyc View Post
    We always talked about a DP get together - ALASKA and Rick's cabin is the place. It would be some time that we would NEVER forget!!
    Well, we can set up a block of time for a DP get together up at the cabin when the fishing is best - last week of July / first week of August 2018. I usually take that time off for visitors every year anyway.

    I have two spare rooms here in my house and between my 3 vehicles I can transport 19 people at once. There's also a pretty nice hotel about 5 miles from my house in Wasilla. Of course, I'll provide the river transportation to and from the cabin in my boat.

    Really, all anyone needs to bring are your clothes. I have enough fishing gear to supply a lot of people and there's always the option to rent a car and take off solo touring Alaska after the get together.

    So, if a bunch of DP people want to come up, I'm game. It'd be a blast!
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Well, we can set up a block of time for a DP get together up at the cabin when the fishing is best - last week of July / first week of August 2018. I usually take that time off for visitors every year anyway.

    I have two spare rooms here in my house and between my 3 vehicles I can transport 19 people at once. There's also a pretty nice hotel about 5 miles from my house in Wasilla. Of course, I'll provide the river transportation to and from the cabin in my boat.

    Really, all anyone needs to bring are your clothes. I have enough fishing gear to supply a lot of people and there's always the option to rent a car and take off solo touring Alaska after the get together.

    So, if a bunch of DP people want to come up, I'm game. It'd be a blast!
    After the hip is fixed, I'd love it!
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    I have a very good friend that I keep in pretty close touch with that I worked with at Reno Harley Davidson. He's born and raised Alaskan and has moved back to Anchorage since our time in Reno. Part of the reason I bought the big Chevy was a plan to pull a comfortable sized 5th wheel trailer up to Alaska. Doesn't sound like I could get the trailer to a remote cabin though.

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    Get up there - sell it for a place to secure your bit of heaven

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    I've got a pretty nice place here in WI. Got it for cheap and have done a lot of renovation on the place, especially the large, two story, 3 bay shop. It'd be really hard to walk away from this place now.

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    okay - I thought when you said you got it to pull the 5th wheel you were gonna move.

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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    I have a very good friend that I keep in pretty close touch with that I worked with at Reno Harley Davidson. He's born and raised Alaskan and has moved back to Anchorage since our time in Reno. Part of the reason I bought the big Chevy was a plan to pull a comfortable sized 5th wheel trailer up to Alaska. Doesn't sound like I could get the trailer to a remote cabin though.
    Nope, there's no road anywhere around the cabin. The only access is by jetboat and snowmachine.

    There's room beside my house next to where I park my boat for an RV, though, a friend of mine from Montana had his big RV / Toy Hauler parked here last summer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by darin View Post
    okay - I thought when you said you got it to pull the 5th wheel you were gonna move.
    I guess I should have mentioned to visit...

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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Nope, there's no road anywhere around the cabin. The only access is by jetboat and snowmachine.

    There's room beside my house next to where I park my boat for an RV, though, a friend of mine from Montana had his big RV / Toy Hauler parked here last summer.
    In Wasilla? You ever see any Palins out and about?

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    Quote Originally Posted by High_Plains_Drifter View Post
    In Wasilla? You ever see any Palins out and about?
    Yeah. I pointed out Sarah's house to Jim while he was here. We run across them occasionally at one of the grocery stores.

    My stepdaughter (1st marriage) went to school with Bristol for most of her K-12 days.

    They're a normal family and good people, despite what the media did to them. Todd is a great guy, a very hard worker and rides a snowmachine like a madman... he's very talented. Takes a big pair to win the Iron Dog.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Yeah. I pointed out Sarah's house to Jim while he was here. We run across them occasionally at one of the grocery stores.

    My stepdaughter (1st marriage) went to school with Bristol for most of her K-12 days.

    They're a normal family and good people, despite what the media did to them. Todd is a great guy, a very hard worker and rides a snowmachine like a madman... he's very talented. Takes a big pair to win the Iron Dog.
    Could you see Russia from that point?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NightTrain View Post
    Yeah. I pointed out Sarah's house to Jim while he was here. We run across them occasionally at one of the grocery stores.

    My stepdaughter (1st marriage) went to school with Bristol for most of her K-12 days.

    They're a normal family and good people, despite what the media did to them. Todd is a great guy, a very hard worker and rides a snowmachine like a madman... he's very talented. Takes a big pair to win the Iron Dog.
    Do you still get reporters up there or are they leaving the Palins alone now?

    I had to look up the Iron Dog. A 2,000 mile snowmobile race across Alaska? That is insane.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Black Diamond View Post
    Could you see Russia from that point?
    We can't, but Tina Fey allegedly is able to!

    Quote Originally Posted by michiganFats View Post
    Do you still get reporters up there or are they leaving the Palins alone now?

    I had to look up the Iron Dog. A 2,000 mile snowmobile race across Alaska? That is insane.
    The swarm of locusts that descended upon Wasilla in 2008 is long gone... that was a friggin zoo. The scumbags were actually staking out schools, trying to get students to dish dirt on Bristol, my stepdaughter was among those approached and asked leading questions. It was despicable and we all instructed our children not to talk to the strange adults asking weird questions about their classmates.

    Then I read about how there were Book Burnings at our local library when Sarah was Mayor, and a host of other completely made up bullshit that was nothing but smears. I still get a bit angry when I remember all of the lies I read and I got a first hand view of the liberal machine that even now is working against Trump.

    Anyway, yeah... the Iron Dog is one hell of a race. It starts outside of Wasilla in Big Lake, then to Nome, then to Fairbanks. I have a friend that has run it a few times, and a 60 year old co-worker that broke his leg last fall training to run it again. You have to be in incredible shape and be a little crazy to ride 80+mph cross country like that. I've wiped out at 105 mph before on my sled, and I haven't gone that fast since then - that hurt. Bad.
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