Day 02: 

- Darkhorse Coffee

-Coastal Bike Ride

Late brunch at Snow City Cafe

Chillin out, quick shop at Skinny Raven Sports

Bus ride over, seeing peeps from Fort Peck Montana by the bus

Culture opening Night,

    -Tried buying raven hoodie from gift store, just didn’t fit right

    -Rest of my GHWIC team amost missed theentire event because they got stuck in Seward for the day

Day 03:

* First day ofthe conference

* Went on run around the coasteal trail again, found a little outdoor calisthenic park.

Petty powerful speech from ABagail from Urban INdian, CDC followed with a fairly dry update

* Kinda forgot what the other presentatinos were, all of a sudden it was lunchtime, and then our team was fscilitating the open sace session

* I decided to opt in a session about art, felt like i was motoring my mouth, didn’t get enough time for people to do hands on activities

*Ended up feeling self conscious AF lol

* Saw Lauren put together an excape room, i didn’t rsvp, showed up after talking with tiffany, guy told me they had cancelled it and i knew nothing

* fucking Laruens man I a over this shit

* ended up running into perdita and her friends frank and lisa, got some pizza, talked and hung out on place by the street. Had homeless native woman come up and ask for mneoy, and i gave her 10 bucks. Felt like lisa was a little guarded about me until i did that, and then it felt like she was actually loking at me in conversation

*we went to darwins theory afterwards and got some beers, good dive bar vibes. Got an amazing tyde dye shirt with the logo, and a native dude came in with some of his earrings, and i got tiff some walrus ivory earrings. Ata. Bunch of free popcorn. Girl at bar was kinda hitting on frank. Janna joined later for a drink, i was kinda drunk and feeling somewhat disoriented. Had kinda a heart to heart but overall i was feeling really spacy about it all, just kinda inebriated and knowing i was in alaska

Day 3:

*woke up and definitely was awarde that i was drinking, didn’t feel the best. Had breakfast and was all self aware about seeing lauren and shit.  Weather was rainy and overall attention was growing kinda wane

* i poably spent more time wadnering around the lobby checking ut all the aertist wares. Bought a bunch of jewelry and sthings for the fam.

*sidenote, i kinda hate trying to recap so much all at once, i should’ve been doing this every day

My dsorry ass evnded up going tolaurens event but i probably shoulda been over at blessing’s presentatino, sounded like she had a pretty impassioned presentation about her own work

*poster sessions afterwards were kinda a joke, everyone seemed to leave righ away

*i went to yamaya seafood across the street and had the most patient time of my life watiting for the one man to take my order. Spent a lot of time in my sketchbook and watching the other locals. After about an hour and a half, i put in an order for soem sashimi dinner. I took a seat at the counter and wanted to watch it, and ended up running into some guy that i had seen at darwin’s theory the night before. Kevin, what a cool dude, he was hanging out there with his cousin casey, and there was this bigger dude, mike, who was spilling all these stores about the army and traveling all over the world and living with his red headed wife over in falencia spain, even though he said he hated living in the desert. Redheads, man. My sashimi was amazing, some fo the most fresh fish and delicate flavors i have had with sushi. It didn’t stop there though, as kevin and casey ordered a bunch of stuff that kevin shared withme. Turns out it was his last night in town and he really wanted to make it count. I had the chicken karage curry, beef udon noodles, and grilled unagi over rice. Kevin and i chatted about all sorts of stuff, youtube recommendations, life as a pilot, travel, wives, it just felt like i was with an old friend, just one of the most cool dudes ive met in my life. We ended up closing the joint downa nd having multiple toasts with sam and asking about his voyage to anchorage over 40 years ago. Said he chased his wife and the wson she already had, and moved from the area of fukokoa (sp?) and had been operating the restaurant for about the last 17 years. Probably one of the most special meals i had all year, it was an amalgamationo of all the amazing japanese food and the company and the conversation. 

Day 4

*fuck, starting to feel like shit. I slept in and missed the entire morning session. Ended up getting out of bed and going back to snow city cafe. Was busy as fuck. Found one seat at the counter and was really hungry for a taste of home, so i did acoffee and a smoothie egg. Took my sketchbook out and some girl sitting next to me asked about my drawings, and we talked markers. Her name is taryn? A darker skinned lady with some intense eye makeup, said she was on a layover with american airlines and had never been to anchorage before. Showed me her copic markers, and we traded instagram infos.