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My JourneyFrom the Deep South to the Deep Freezeby Karen Rhoades

The Carriage Road to My Great Grandmas House Rocky Point, NCThe Road to My House Wasilla, AK

Im from the South.

No, not South Anchorage. The Deep South. Home of fried chicken, cornbread, barbecueand a lot of people with heart disease.

I was the first child born to Bob and Joan Lee in High Point, North Carolina, the furniture capital of the world !

As the only child for several years I was the princess.

Like many children I spent a lot of time wondering what I wanted to be when I grew up.A Hollywood starlet?

An engineer? No, women couldnt do that.

Maybe a sailor

No, women couldnt do that back then either.My life was fairly normalelementary school, junior high (as we called it back then)then high school and college.

Now college was fun. I actually made the first real friends I ever had.

I went to school in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. People come from all over the country to look at the leaves.

One day, the brother of a friend came from Alaska to visit and before he left he invited me to come up for a vacation.

I got off the plane in Anchorage and I knew this was the place for me; the biggest mountains I had ever seen and such wide open spaces!

We eventually married.

And weve had a lot of Alaskan adventures along the way; camping, fishing, hunting, and skiing.

In 1989 we had a son whom I homeschooled for seven years. Now THAT was an adventure.

Dissecting a caribou eyeball on a hunting trip.After our son graduated from high school I began a new journeyas a teacher!

Dissecting a salmon with second-graders.

Now Im in Dillingham

15Were All About Salmon.

and Subsistence

and Educating Our Children

Our subsistence fish site on Kanakanak Beach

I dont know what the future holds but I do know that life is a gift and Im still opening mine