Barbara Andersen:  

Hello, I've been married to Zach Andersen from Iowa since 1981. I have 3 sons and 1 daughter. Also, five grandchildren. We homeschooled all of our children. Our claim to fame is that we spent 2 1/2-3 years living on our land in an 18x30 tent and built our home 5 miles outside of Buena Vista, Colorado. It was a great adventure with the three little boys and I got pregnant during that time with our daughter! My husband has always wanted to move to Alaska and I had spray painted a rock gold and wrote "Alaska or bust" on it for his birthday and he set it on his nightstand. In 1999, he put it into his jeans' pocket and carried it around everyday. Finally, in 2001, we decided to visit Alaska. We got back to Colorado, looked at each other and said, "If we don;t just sell it all and go , we will never know if we had the guts to ever do it."..so WE DID. We have been in Alaska for 12 years now. Two of the boys went on to college. One is a geologist, married and has two children. The other is a chemistry/ physics major. When we moved to AK our third son began working on the boats and is now a Captain and works for a tour company in the Administrative office. He is married and has th...Expand for more