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Stewart, BC and Hyder, Alaska
July 9, 2002

 

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Paul, there's a bear straight ahead. Keep smiling but get the camera ready!
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The bear was close enough to touch, that's why the window's up and there's a glare.
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The bear can't find any berries and we don't want to stick around for the tantrum.
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Glacier Highway runs to Stewart, BC and Hyder, Alaska from the Cassiar Highway in Central BC.
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It's hard to believe that each new view gets better than the last.
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Come, to paradise!
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Yodel-ay-hee-hoo!
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Dot's got happy feet!
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A few hundred years ago, an alien spaceship landed on this mountain top. The snow has sealed it from prying eyes...
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This glacier, near Stewart, BC was used in the Al Pacino/Robin Williams/Hillary Swank movie, "Insomnia."
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Watch out, Paul, the glacier's comin' to get ya! [at 6 inches/year]
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Downtonw Stewart, BC. A lovely small town, right beside Hyder, Alaska.
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I'd like to buy a vowel in Hyder, Alaska.
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Hyder's finest high-rises.
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Paul and Dot get "hyderized." It's a local tradition involving a secret, potent, Alaska-style shot of booze. If you barf it up, you buy drinks for the whole house.