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Ice Fishing in Alaska

Happy New Year! I started this blog last year but have not yet put it to good use. So to begin the New Year I will start with a post from our first trip of the year: Alaska!

This is our second time in Alaska and we absolutely love it! Last year we were here during the summer and we really wanted to experience Alaska during the winter as well.

I am a tropical girl and I tend to get cold pretty easy, so people were really questioning why I chose to come to a place that is known to get below -20 degrees Fahrenheit. But I am also a big outdoors girls and Alaska is a dream for all outdoor adventurers!

The first day that we got here we went ice fishing. Ice fishing is one of the main reason we came during this time of year. We went out to Chena Lake at night during our first fishing trip. Although we had a great time and it was a really cool experience, we did not catch much and what we did catch was very small. We managed to reel in a total of 5 small fish (Jackson 3 and I dropped my third back in the hole) and that was our dinner for the first night. We went back on Saturday during the day and had a lot more luck! I had already caught 2 fish before Jackson even got his pole in the water! He was jealous LOL at least up till he had 14 fish and I was stuck at 5….

The fish were larger as well and we had a much more filling dinner than our first night. We started off fishing in a cabin with our amazing fishing guide Lee. He showed us how to drill the holes in the ice and the right rods and bait to use. Once we felt a bit more comfortable with our newly learned fishing style, we decided to go a bit more rugged and leave the cabin. We drilled our holes and Lee set up a tent and where we were able to fish while staying a bit out of the cold. Jackson caught the biggest fish of the day while in that tent!

Overall, we had an amazing time these 2 days ice fishing and would love to do it again. We are still in Alaska and still have more adventures to come. I will have at least one more post on our Alaskan winter, but that’s all for this post.

If anyone is looking for a great fishing guide near Fairbanks, Alaska we went with Lee from http://akrivertours.com/ They were great!

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Why

So this is my first post and I am not too sure as to what to write on it. I want to let everyone know a bit about who I am and why I chose to do this blog. My name is Alyssia Lee, I have a bachelors degree in Biology and working on my masters. I have decided to put a slight halt on school for now in order to see the world while I am still relatively young. I have always been very ambitious about seeing the world, even from a very young age some of my best memories are the travels that I used to do. Before I was even 10 years old, I remember road tripping from  Houston to Mexico City with my dad, traveling and staying in the jungles and  villages of Chiapas, getting to stay and learn of my mothers culture in El Salvador, living and learning of my dads culture in Texas, and of course growing up in Central Mexico made me a real TCK (third culture kid). All of this left me with an even greater aspiration to see what else the world has to show me. I would study maps and plan out all the crazy adventures that I would have all over the world. Now I am older and my view on the world has changed, however I’ve kept the same ambition as a child of 10, I want to see world. I want to not only see it but I want to live it, I want to get to know the people, culture, food, religion, language of every region of this Earth. There are 196 countries in the world and I don’t want to stop till I have seen them all and a few in between. I am going to try and post weekly about the stories of the people we meet along the way, and hopefully can meet up with a few of you guys during our journey. If we are ever in your town we would love to get advice on the best places to go, and if you ever feel like joining along, send a message and lets travel places! I am exited about the road ahead, I know that there is so much beauty in this planet that God has put us in, I want to explore it all and share with you what I discover along the way.