I am moving across the tundra quickly, because about a mile out a gyrfalcon is beating its wings above a cliff, and I want to see it close up before it soars beyond the bald mountains. With my eyes to the sky, I barely realize I’ve just breached an abandoned quarry. Things just start to happen so fast – the surprised giant wakes and stands in defiance. His brown, shaggy coat droops to his knees, and those giant horns face me.
My friends say I am jumpy around wild animals – this may be true, but can you blame me? He’s about thirty feet away – do I run? Moose, yes. Bear, no. But a muskox? The jeep is about a half-mile away. He’ll win the charge to the Jeep, I’ll win a bolt directly to the gravel road, which is much closer than the Jeep.
Seconds pass, he’s not charging. I give him a second look; is he more nervous than me?
Pomerania & the Pomeranian Feast Part I of the Pomeranian Feast. Follow us through Eastern Germany into Poland, as we follow the history of a Northern European Feast.
Gdansk and the Pomeranian Feast
Part II of the Pomeranian Feast. Follow us through the City State of Gdansk and into Berlin to conclude the history of cuisine from this often misunderstood and mysterious part of the world.
Midnight Road to Beringia Part VI of the Oregon Testament travels to the subarctic lands of Northern Alaska to uncover clues to Oregon's earliest settlement.
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Coastal grasses along Safety Sound.
