Armeda Bulard:  

Life Alaska is still home after 42 yrs. Both of my kids are married & I have 2 grandsons (Dustin and Hawken) & 2 granddaughters (Dallas and Deborah). The two businesses are still up and running and the paperwork is still overpowering. Cantwell Lodge is open year around and with the help of my son's sawmill the main building and the Atco motel unit are both sided with Alaskan cottonwood. All of us are avid snow machiners. We still have a Piper Super Cub in the yard which son, Chris, now flys. Chris and my son-in-law, Mike, continue bear hunting up on the East Fork of the Chulitna River where our old home in the Bush is located. Janet does the office work at the Lodge four days a week and i take the other three days. Davida, my daughter-in-law, is at home in Sutton working. Anchorage is still 210 miles south & Fairbanks 150 north - thank goodness!!! Cantwell has tripled in size from 88 people in 1965 to about 265 residents. There are days when that's too many so riding or flying off into the mountains is great. I enjoy visiting relatives & friends in the "Lower 48" but I could never live out there again. I continue to sail with the Windjammer Barefoot Cruise line. It's a small company and their 3-masted and 4-masted sailing ships have nice small compliments of passengers. Over the past nine years I've met many new friends and have become close friends with a handful...Expand for more