5/31/08

Today started with a grocery shopping that nearly broke the bank, one downfall to being an island town is the price of groceries. A pound of chicken breast was over $9. But you gotta take the good with the bad. Spent the early part of this afternoon flight seeing with my neighbor who lives in the front house, he's one of the pilots for the company and owns his own plane. So I got to see my neighborhood and surrounding areas by flight. Then went on a medevac this afternoon in Stewart/Hyder. Hyder is Alaska, Stewart is British Columbia. It's about a 45 minute flight in the helo from Ketchikan in good weather. It's mostly throught the mountains so the view is amazing. We landed in a make shift baseball field about 100 yards from the shore with the same Helo pilot as yesterday. And after yesterday and my mild concern about landing at the top of a mountain, we're getting ready to land and he asks me "is landing a little better for you?" Wiseass! Followed by a comment about "those people in the lower 48". Once again, had a blast and I must reiterate I love being in the Helicopter! The sight, the sounds, I dig it! I'm considering getting a pilots license but it's very expensive.