30 August 2006

Alaska Vacations 2006

So, I'm back from Alaska and I'm still excited! I knew from TV shows and documentaries that Alaska was going to be amazing, but, dear God... no TV show comes close to real life. On the first day we flew above Price William Sound where we saw glaciers merging. Later, our pilot gave us a close-up look at Mt. McKinley's peak at 20,000 ft. altitude. We saw grizzly and brown bears, moose, beavers, bald eagles, caribou and raindeer, artic fox, ox, etc... We visited Fairbanks, Denali National Park, Mt. McKinley, Talkeetna, Anchorage, Whittier, Skagway, Juneau, Ketchikan in Alaska; finally arriving at Vancouver, Canada.

The Apple iPad is not a laptop

A friend recently sent me an e-mail expressing interest in the new Apple iPad. She wanted my opinion on whether the iPad is like a laptop o...