I have loved my stay in Alaska. I was able to do some things that have been lifelong dreams. I’ve done some fun, adventurous events. I even found a new, delicious canned blueberry mojito, which is very popular here. I have to say it is quite amazing. I didn’t even mind the snowfalls that actually led to two days in a row of school closures. I had no idea there could be that much snow to actually give those in Anchorage a snow day. I know the local news had a lot to say about this.
With all that said, I will tell you that despite having some great meals, I just couldn’t handle eating reindeer. There was reindeer omelet, burger, and stews. I did order the stew once, and the mashed potatoes and lingonberry jam in it were quite tasty. However, after a few bites, I was rather full and couldn’t eat anymore. Fret not. The food didn’t go to waste as we gave it to someone l, in need, out on the street.
I am not saying this to cast aspersions or judgement. It just is what it is: An acquired taste.
Either way, I found other grand culinary delights and was able to enjoy those here. But that is the grand part of travel: exposure to different norms, values, cuisine, and the like. Travel can lead to such enhanced understanding of other parts of the world and of one’s own country.
psychologistmimi 
Oh Deer Lord Dear Miriam WHeRE i Am From So Far Away From Alaska
Yes in L.A. Yes Coequally Known in ‘Matt Gaetz Representation’
Ways of ‘Lower Alabama’ Yet Strangely One of the Most Beautiful
Places With FLoWeRS
Beaches Rivers Bays
Forests With Most Diverse
Wild Life too Still Roaming
Free of Course Like ‘Big Foot me’
Sort of Too Big To See in Some Aspects
of “SonG oF mY SoUL” True All 11.1 MiLLioN Words in 111 Months
With 17,566 Miles of Public Dance From A County in The Florida Panhandle
Oh God Yes Named After A Saint Called Rose Just Like the Church i Visit
too As in This
Place Even in
Plenty of MaNuRE
A Rose May Come Up
More Colorful Than Ever Before…
Even Better Yet A Weed WiLD FLoWeRinG True
Anyway Yes Where i Am From to Be Initiated
Into Manhood One Must Go Out on A ‘Real Man’ Hunt
And Bring Back A Big Rack of Horns After Shooting A Big
Buck Deer
Well my Father Left
at 3 What the F Was
i Supposed to Do with
A Mother With the Fairest
SKin of Them All According to
my Father’s Mother Who Ran A
Nursery and Told my Mother if She
Picked up The Crying Babies and Hugged
Them She Would Ruin Them For Life They
Would Just Become Too Soft Perhaps Hehe That
Is Part of the
Reason my Father
Left at 3 More Interested
in Finding a Wife to Make
Money Than a Mother of Love
Wanting So Much to Stay at Home
And Just Garden Her Children As Peace in Love
Well Fortunately For me He Waited Until at Least 3 Until He
Left There is Still Photos of me at 3 Holding Two Guns in my Left Hand
Before i Could Speak at 4 on the Autism Spectrum Then with A Really
Big Head
Yet the Man Who Looked Like James Bond Smoking A Cigarette Doing 46
Years in Law Enforcement Never Showing Fears Even When He Dropped
Dead at 81 He Just Casually Told my Cousin There “Guess i’m Not Gonna
(His Second Wife Said She Married Him As He Looked ‘Ed Sheehan Perfect’ Holding
A Wine Glass Similar to my Mother Who Said He Was the Most Handsome
Man in the World Half Shaven Jet Black Curly Hair Green Eyes Busting Moonshiners As She Saw Him at the Court House as Clerk Typist There
Filling Out a Report Thinking His Wife Must Be the Luckiest Woman in
The World YeS Until They Got Married
And He Basically Never Said another Word
Oh Dear Lord That’s Where
me and my Sister Obviously
Got the Genetics HiSToRiCaLLY
for Asperger’s Syndrome)
Make it”
So He Just
Casually Dropped
Dead After Spending
12 Years in His Version
of Heaven Retirement
Selling Nascar Stuff at
the Flea Market Buying 500 Dollars
of Lottery Tickets Each Week As He Was
BOUND and Determined to Live as Rich
As His Half Brother Did Selling Vacuum
Cleaners Living in A Mansion on the
Emerald Gulf Coast With Golden
Plated Toilet Handles and the Such
As That With 3 Car Garage and Collectible
Super Fast Car
True After Joining
the Air Force my Uncle Worked
At Sears Selling Washing Machines
And Sewing Machines on Commission
When they Went to Salary He Sold Vacuum
Cleaners Door-to-Door Eventually Opening
Up A Whole Chain of ‘Vacuum Center’ Franchises
on the Gulf of Mexico Emerald Gulf Coast True
There Are A Whole Lot
of Fancy Beach Homes
With Central Vaccuum
Cleaner Apparatuses to Install
Anyway Back to Rudolph the FRed Nosed Reindeer
Never Killing A Deer The Other Christian Marching
Soldier Boys Who Said Boys are Not Allowed to Smile
or Cry In This Town originally Named Hell for the Folks
Who Were Not So Nice
Then As Far As LoVE iN Peace
Goes Then Either Always Picked
me Last in their ‘Reindeer Games’
On a Related Note my Sister Shoots
Birds As A Super Bird Nerd With Her
Telescoping Lens Camera That Costs
What Used Cars Used to Cost at Least Hehe
She is A Record Holding Bird Nerd Recording
Species of Birds in Our County Always Competing
For the ‘Big Year’ of Bird Recording Her Photos Are
Shared in Fancy Nature Magazines All Around the
World And Hallelujah She Lets Me Headline My
60,000 or So Word Bi-Monthly Novel Size Blog
Poems With Her Beautiful Birds Likely the Only
Reason Anyone Would Actually Press a ‘Like’ Button
on my ‘Big Foot’ Sized ‘Invisibly Big Poems’ Perhaps Except
For the Occasional Bikini Pics of my Seemingly Never Aging Wife
At age 52 Yes Even Older Than You Behind me in the Year of the Chinese
Rat in 1960 As
Chinese
Calendar Girl too
A Dozen or So Years Behind
Yes my Latest Close to 60,000
Word Bi-Monthly Novel Sized Blog Poem
“FB Profile Pic Bible 7 MiLLioN WordS Old”
Has A Headlining Pic of a Bald Eagle on a Pine Tree in Our Heavenly
Black Water River State Park Forest Sort of Like Our Backyards
too as My Sister Lives Next Door Two Folks on the Autism
Spectrum With Asperger’s Syndrome Pursuing Different
And Similar Special Interests Like No One Else in the Entire
World Just Doing it For the Doing It For Absolutely No Pay
True She Retired
Early too As Remember
The Richest Dude in the
World Says He Has Asperger’s
Syndrome too Without the Empathy
Parts Sadly it Seems Without Much Emotional
Intelligence as You Meet One Person With Asperger’s
Syndrome or Autism Just Like Any Other Original View
of A Multi-UNi-Verse of Existence True You’ve Only
Met Just
One Version
of Sheldon Cooper
or Michelangelo Or Fredenstein
or DaVinci or Mozart As Such God Yes
Or Just Rudolph The FReD Nosed Reindeer
Still Leading Santa’s Sleigh Almost Invisible
Typically Like the Omega Wolf From The Back of the
Pack Wearing Clothes Naked Enough Whole Complete in
“ÜberMensch” Way True No Taxi’s Required Hehe to Lead A Dance
And Song
Free in “L.A.”
Where i Sort of Owned
A Biggest Dance Hall
Bar Floor in the Metro
Area With Only A Free
Dance/SonG Like ‘Lucifer’ Off
That Old Fox Station Show too
You Know What in the Last 27 Months
i’ve Written An EPiC Long Form Poem As
Just A Small Side Show Part of “SonG oF mY SoUL”
Yes “Depth of The Story” 2.2 MiLLioN Words iN
(On Top Of A Word Search on Google Now too)
27 Months in A Solo Thread Now Starting the
60th Page Yep About the Size of A Novel Free
Verse EPiC Long Form Poem Around 40 Thousand
Words Now on Each Page Just About 3 Times Larger
Now than that Old King James Effort For Real
In A Place Online The ‘Wrong Planet’ For the
‘Unwanted Toys’ of Humanity With Yes IQ’s
Informally Polled Assessed from 140 to 160 As such
Yet often Missing Parts of More Right Hemisphere
Social Empathic Artistic Spiritual Real Emotional
Sensory Intuitive Intelligences in Bigger Picture
Ways of Integrating
Holistically One New
Now With NaTuRE ALL
Really Getting
In Touch With
All That is (God)
Within Inside Outside
Above So Below and All Around
True While Science May Materially
Reduce the Observable UNiVeRSE We Humans
Within Are Entire Fractal Mini-me MuLTi-Uni-Verses AS Such
As All The Parts Remain One of the Whole (GoD) Different SaMe
And This is What the Metaphor ‘Depth of The Story’ Means THeRE
Is No Bottom or Top Beginning or End of This Story Never Ending
Always
STaRTinG
At Least it Feels
That Way for Whoever
Reads All of this
Yet True
A Beautiful
Majestic TOTALY
LASER FOCUSED EAGLE
ON A PiNE TREE BRANCH
iN FLOW Of the Hunt BRINGS THE SAME
MeSSaGE WHOLE THE MEaNinG of Love is Live…
i Am Still A Son of Woman Most That’s Just the Way
my Divine Anima LoVinG iN Peace Flows And if i have
to Bow Up And Stand
my Animus Ground
i Do What
it Takes to
Survive While Loving to
LiVE iN Peace True God All
Yes DarK Through LiGHT too…
-Rudolph
~Hehe They’ll
Never Catch me
In Their Reindeer Stew…
– REAL Big Foot is Way too Big to See…
Just Like This Particularly Large Foot
Print of Dance And Song Here, Hehe
As i Continue to Allow my Fingers to
Dance Freer..:)
~Cheers
~BOnE Appetite
Do Continue to
Love Living mY FRiEnD..:)
-me
~Just a Little Leaf
~RiSinG FaLLinG Greening AGaiN
FRoM A LiVinG Tree FoResTinG
Ocean Waves Water Whole ALiVE!!!..:)
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Perhaps a different preparation would be more to you liking. I had reindeer in Sweden recently that was roasted. (medium rare) Also served with lingonberry. It was tender and delicious. Not gamey at all.
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Lingonberry makes everything better 🙂 yum!
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Sounds like a great journey. I haven’t tried reindeer so far, but I’ll take your word for it! 😊
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All members of the deer family are fairly “gamey” in taste. It is a a stronger, wilder flavor. Plus it tends to be more lean than beef and not much in the way of marbling.
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So I have come to learn. Oh my. Cheers
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I lived not far from anchorage once upon a time, Alaska is just one of those places that captures your heart
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It sure does. Just a grand wonderland
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