魅力的なサウス・タングス・ホーム - ローカルのように生きる

Your hosts were raised around the corner from each other in rural Utah. Both then followed separate paths to Alaska before meeting again in later life to share their love of the 49th State.

Nicole's path involved taking a respite from career to help build a cabin on a wilderness island in Southeast Alaska; co-operating the local radio station in Ketchikan for several years; and working for a decade in Antarctica.

Brent's path led him across the Arctic while supporting village power systems for 15 years, traveling between each of the cooperative's 50-plus villages. In his off time, he explored several river systems that feed the vast Interior.

When not enjoying family and their hometown in southern Utah, Nicole and Brent can be found soaking up the rainforest at home in Ketchikan.

This article, written by Nicole years ago for the Ketchikan Visitors Bureau media kit, helps explain why we keep returning to Ketchikan and consider it 'home:'

'Step onto the dock in Ketchikan and feel it – the rhythm of an island life. Time spent in a place where all roads circle back to center; where the day’s schedule ebbs and flows to the tides, daylight hours, and Alaska Airlines flight schedule. No corporate time clock or freeway traffic here. And any industrial noise is that of an occasional floatplane or the slap of a fishing boat’s lines flying ashore.

Bound to a single, sprawling community that stretches some 35 miles from one end of the developed road system to the other, residents of this Alaska town and associated rural borough appreciate a refined sense of cohesiveness that comes from living together in some isolation. At once gritty, eclectic, and yet strikingly civilized, there is something in Ketchikan’s island life that speaks to most everyone.'

This home provides a convenient headquarters for exploring the best of the Panhandle. Live like a local and experience the real Alaska.