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Gary <g.majors@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jan Flora wrote:
> >
> > If you go to Glenallen, stop at the Brown Bear Rhodehouse. It's about
a
> > mile or two towards ANC from Glenallen. It's a Christian-free zone.
>
> A Christian-free zone? LOL! ;)
Glenallen is a notorious hotspot for really strident right-wing
Christians. When you buy gas there, someone will hand you a flier asking
if you have met the Lord yet. I **** you not. The Brown Bear is a safe
haven from that sort of propaganda. It's where working folks go to eat
and drink.
>
> > My friends, Doug & Cindy Rhodes own it. It looks like a dump from the
> > outside. The food is terrific. If the bartender is grumpy, that'll be
> > Doug.
>
> LOL again! And hey, I've often found that the dumpy places have some of
the
> best food.
Actual Alaskans don't require everything to be perfect, clean, neat,
like Disneyland North. In fact, the Disneyland stuff tends to make us
nervous and grouchy. Real Alaska is too real for most folks, so the tour
companies have to sanitize everything for their paying customers. You
should see the expressions on people's faces the first time they have to
use an outhouse in their life. I've seen women that would rather wet
their pants in public than use an outhouse. (I'd think it was funnier if
I wasn't such an empathetic person. It's pretty funny anyway.) Much less
have to squat in the weeds to pee. =:-O
I shouldn't pick on tourists. Most of them are pretty nice people, if
you get to meet them a few at a time, instead of by the thousands.
Kiwi's and Aussies are misplaced Alaskans; they just live in the other
hemisphere. They're as goofy and fun as Alaskans.
It's raining like a by-god down here near Homer right now.
Jan
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