...The chores. ... the stores. ...fresh air. ...Times Square.

New York is where I’d rather stay.
I get allergic smelling hay.
I just adore a penthouse view.
Dah-ling I love you but give me Park Avenue.

Eva Gabor was right. It's the city life for me. I love living downtown... walking distance to everything I need. There's always something happpening in my neighborhood.

I'm not really an outdoors kinda gal. I don't really like camping (especailly without running water!), and I'm always cold. Most of all, I'm terrified of bears.

I don't know why I'm so interested in the north.

I think I might just be intrepid. In 2002, I decided to go on a 4 day horseback riding trip through the Candaian Rockies. I had never really rode a horse before... but then, how hard could it be? I drove 12 hours from Seattle to Banff by myself. The scenery was so pretty... and I saw big horn sheep, mountain goats, martins, and lots of elk. It was peacefull.... (While there were bears all aound us, I never saw one.)

I'm also fascinated by the men and women of the Klondike Gold Rush. They risked everything on a crazy adventure. They were reckless, bold... foolish. I admire them, much in the same way I admire Christopher McCandless, the protagnist from Into the Wild.

McCandless, after reading too much Jack London, decided to adventure north. Like the southlanders in Call of the Wild or To Build a Fire, he challenges nature... and dies. Most people think that he was just a weird kid and that his death was pointless.

I think he was heroic... and there is also a little something heroic about riding a scooter to Dawson.