Hi everyone. It’s 7:30 or so here in Fairbanks, Alaska. We left DC Saturday morning, July 19 and arrived in Vancouver, Canada on Tuesday. We left Cosmo with family in Washington State and the car in Vancouver so we could pick it up at the end of the Hillsdale College cruise we’re about to embark on (via Anchorage). When I got to the Fairbanks airport on Wednesday night, my brother-in-law informed me that I was going Halibut-fishing in Prince William Sound the next day. Which I did (maybe I’ll post a picture or two later). The fishing was so-so. I only caught one halibut and he wasn’t that big — somewhere between 30 and 40 pounds. My apologies to everyone who sent me email only to receive a bounce-back because my email box filled up. Wireless service out there is understandably limited.

Anyway, my brain is seriously fried (“This is something we already knew” — the Couch). And I need to dig out and write a column. But I will be chiming in a bit more today and this week, if I’m still welcome around here (prediction: I will get lots of email from the folks who say everything was better without me).