My Journey to ALASKA

[briggie]

Hi all, I'm away to CClub site at Gelli-lydan near Portmadoc for a week,my brother is taking the van for me as i don't drive anymore since this MND but it won't stop me enjoying myself, so i got myself a mini me Mobility scooter which I need to someone to "Pimp my ride" with all terrain tyres bigger drive motor and chainsaw fitted to the front and winch front and rear,not forgetting rock sliders.lol
see you next week with more Alaska info.

rustygates

have fun mate :thumb2

 

[solarman216]

you enjoy your self, we can wait for the next episode but not too long mind, Rick

 

[bry]

Take care Bud.

 

[Banshee]

I've just finished watching "Into The Wild" with the GF, such a moving film about a young guy who falls out with his parents and lives wild in Alaska, I wont ruin the film but it's def worth a watch

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758758/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I'll certainly be giving this a read from the start to the end when I get a few mins spare

 

[(RIP) rustygates]

Hi all I'm back from a challenging week or so in Porthmadoc with my brother in the caravan, as i am disabled now from the Motor Neurone Disease, so my mobility scooter had it's work cut out going up forestry trails and the like,nearly tipped it over but the castors on the back stopped it,we did about 10mls round trip which was amazing for such a little machine,i need to get an "all terrain" mob scooter next and fancy going all around Anglesey on a sponsored scoot for the MND Society sometime soon.
Anyhow some more of Bob's papers.

 

[(RIP) rustygates]

His annual big shop bought from Seattle to Bettles by Stern Wheel Steamers (very little draught) then by packhorse to Wiseman and the Dog team to Nolan

 

[(RIP) rustygates]

List of all the licence's he needed to carry on hunting and trapping and mining so beaurocracy existed in those days as well

 

[len peacock]

thanks

I know how we all like photos,would anyone be interested in the journey i made to Prudoe Bay up the Dalton Highway the road(loosely termed) the "ice road truckers" use from Fairbanks to Prudoe bay about 400mls, I spent 3months in Alaska following my great uncle trail, he left a small village in North Wales to travel from Liverpool to Canada then to the gold fields in 1890's at 17yrs old.It is quite a story.

rustygates.

Ee Up to you all i have just spent all most 3hrs with you on this journey it was as if i was with you . i am 71 have a Terrano 3ltr and love to get away with our caravan .i have been a truck driver from the age of 17 and in the 70/80s did the middle east run so thank you it was brill to be with you all the best Len and Ann Peacock.

 

[(RIP) rustygates]

Back on form or forum

Hi all,at last I'm back,my MND triggered some alarming changes to my body,so I have had to adapt a few things and I'm currently in a Hospice for respite not leaving this earth just yet and home next week to carry on with Uncle Bob story,so apologies for sudden departure from this forum, but as title suggests back on track.

rustygates.

 

[Sweety]

Hi Rustygates, sorry to hear your illness has got worse I've just read through it all & what a fantastic read & you should make this into a book:thumbs My brother has not long came back from Canada visiting some of our family & said once you get away from the towns & cities it's such a stunning place & is saving up to go back & to go further north this time

 

[solarman216]

Oh bad luck mate, really feel for you, my wife and I fostered special needs kids for 24 years so have a better idea than most on the problems you face, all I can say is your thread is fantastic and you did the journey, so a big plus under your belt, keep up the good work and look forward to the next post, and as said by another you could produce a book from this, Rick

 

[AD Ent]

I'd buy the book :thumb2 Hope you start to feel a bit better Rustygates.

 

[(RIP) rustygates]

Bob's interview 1962

This interview was recorded in 1967 and transcribed by me over the past 3 months,only problem is that it is 179kb and only 19kb allowed here,is there any way i can maybe put it on here a few pages at a time.

rustygates

 

[Ogri]

This interview was recorded in 1967 and transcribed by me over the past 3 months,only problem is that it is 179kb and only 19kb allowed here,is there any way i can maybe put it on here a few pages at a time.

rustygates

If you want to email it to me I can put it on some Web space I have and you could link to it from here? Not ideal I know but maybe a solution?

All the best,

Ian

 

[briggie]

any update on this ?

 

[(RIP) rustygates]

If you want to email it to me I can put it on some Web space I have and you could link to it from here? Not ideal I know but maybe a solution?

All the best,

Ian

Hi Ian,thanks for your offer,your suggestion is brilliant and everyone that's interested can view it.
If you can message me your email address,I would be most grateful.

ruustygates

 

[Ogri]

@ rustygates, PM sent.

 

[(RIP) rustygates]

Uncle Bob's interview 1967

The Life and Times of R. H. Jones a.k.a. Uncle Bob

Hi all,without Ian and Pete's Input to this would not happened,and not forgetting all the members encouragement to carry on with my "Alaska Blog" as became,and to add to this blog is the interview with Bob in 1967,it was a recording on a reel to reel tape recorder

 

[(RIP) rustygates]

The Life and Times of R. H. Jones a.k.a. Uncle Bob

Hi all,without Ian and Pete's Input this would not have happened,and not forgetting all the members encouragement to carry on with my "Alaska Blog" as became,and to add to this blog is the interview with Bob in 1967,it was a recording on a reel to reel tape recorder

Just click on the link above.

In the Interview Bob mentions "The Blue Parka Man" and "Soapy Smith", both were notorious gangsters of their time,The Blue Parka Man was seen as some Robin Hood character by many,and escaped from jail many times and Soapy Smith was again seen as a loveable conman.

Google both of these people for more info.

rustygates

 

[solarman216]

Downloaded, and read first page, I will settle down to this when more time, as want to digest it properly, very best regards to you, have you kept up with the threads on an off road wheel chair and the offer from Briggie? also they are available to hire by the week between £50 and £90 a week, so depends how many weeks needed, but I would buy you a week no problem, Rick