Worth Going Back: A Memoir of Alaska

The sun glistening off snow-capped mountain peaks, the tall spruce of the north swaying in a gentle breeze, salmon making their final swim, this is what welcomed John and his wife Teddi on a road trip to the uppermost points of North American. A son Pete supplied an item that motivated a documentation of such a journey; a simple blank journal.

John realized that dates and places were not what brought him here, but a lifetime of history and preparation. The journey goes backward in time as we...