Sue

Homo sapiens - the only surviving hominid; species to which modern man belongs; bipedal primate having language and ability to make and use complex tools; brain 1400 cc.....I was raised in Alaska, having traveled up the Alcan highway in 1950 with my then very young parents ( age 24) and twin sister . We started life in Alaska living in a tent and traveling in an old army jeep named "myrt" I spent my childhood following my father's work from Ketchikan to Barrow...living in tents, log cabins, float houses, boats, learning to hunt, fish, trap and explore. I have lived among native Alaskan Indians, Aleuts, and Yupiks learning many of thier customs, stories and culture. I considermyself a fortunate person to have experienced a childhood unlike most. I spent most of my adult summers commercial fishing from SE Alaska to Bristol Bay on hand cranking trollers, hydraulic bow pickers and beach set net rigs. During my teen years I worked in cannerys earning money for school. One of my favorite memories from childhood is of our single engine Piper Cub airplane that my father bought and landed on the road, removed the wings, towed it to a net loft, where he and my mother took it down to the skeleton and re-fabriced and doped it, re-built the engine, put a new wooden prop on and converted it from wheels to floats, we flew it to bays and lakes using it to hunt and fish from until my siblings and I found doing things with your parents was a real drag and it was more fun to hang out at the local marina catching wolf eels and running around the bay in a tiny skiff.I continue to be adventurous and never tire of seeing new places and learning new things. I recently spent several months living in Scotland, a beautiful and mystical place.