North: I have discovered no other destination in our great land of America that affects my sense of beauty, peace, and vastness quite like Alaska. I think of it as the land of no neon a place where moose, elk and wolves roam, and the Alaskan brown bear is the dominate wild predator.

Alaska is a land where the scale is so immense that flying over endless mountain ranges defies your preconceived imagination of what huge formerly meant. Those prior notions of immensity are vacant now they are replaced by a new concept Alaska. The intricacy of how Alaska draws upon one's soul and beckons relic primal yearnings was reflected best by a favorite poet of the young state:

"... can't you hear the Wild? it's calling you. Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us; Let us journey to a lonely land I know. There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us, And the Wild is calling, calling . . . let us go." Read more