I was just over at crewchief's blog and reading more on life in Alaska.  Prior to that I was watching Alaska Magazine TV.  Yep, it's an Alaska kind of day...  (doubled by the fact that it's cold and drizzly here in NH today - the kind of day my DH and I fondly refer to as a "Shen kind of day," after the Bible camp we worked at once just outside of Tok, AK.  It was just this kind of weather.)

Anytime I spend time reading about or viewing pictures/movies on Alaska, it brings me back to that grand dream we once had.  "Once upon a time," it begins, and ends.  Life took over.  It's been 15 years since we were there; if you had told me when we were leaving it would be this long before we got back, I would have turned in the plane ticket then and there and just never left.  Once we had kids, the extended family laid a major guilt trip on us for even thinking of such a move!!  It used to matter to me, but not any more.   It's not their life.  Period!

But it's things like family and jobs and having a "normal" life that seem to kill such a wild dream, isn't it?  Do you dream of a big house, nice car and 2.3 children?...Go for it!  Do you want to move out into the country and be self-sufficient, somewhere that is - God forbid - far away?  NOT! 

Oh well, the dream is not dead.  My DH and I would love to head to Alaska.  If we live there a year and decide it's not for us, back down we come.  But if we love it and it IS "us," then we've made a dream come true.  Life's too short to live your life making OTHER people happy!