A Tidbit

A tidbit for those of you who live in the Lower 48 states.  Alaskans do not think of distance in terms of miles. Only time. Alaskans do not think of the distance from Seattle to Juneau as 1500 miles but four hours by plane – if the weather is good, if you take off on time, if it is not a milk run that stops at every community up the panhandle.  You cannot drive to Juneau. Juneau and one-third of Alaskans live in communities which do not connect with the rest of the United States with a road.  This area is called the Bush and during the winter, travel is by plane or dog sled. To this day. While this photograph was from about 1920, this mode of travel is as ‘true’ today as it was then. https://amzn.to/2PQ7JSX; https://youtu.be/xge4pK-MiMQ

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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