James Nelson:  

April 10th, 2009 On June 13th 2009, I'll be flying up to Anchorage to drive back with my son to Chicago. He's been in Kodiak for 2 years on a bouy tender as a chef for the Coast Guard and has just been reassigned to Lake Michigan at a station in Michigan City, Indiana. He will pick me up at the airport in Anchorage and then we are driving 800 miles along the Alaskan Highway to Haines, Alaska. While in Haines we are going to take a 6 hour Salmon fishing charter. We then take a ferry from Haines to Bellingham Washington that is a 3 day + voyage through the inner passages. The trip from Bellingham will take us through Washington, Idaho,Montana, North Dakato, Minnesota and Wisconsin. I'd say this may be a trip of a lifetime. I'll try to post some photo's Personal facts: My wife and I live in the Chicago Illinois area and have been here for more then 30 years. The above photo was taken in our back yard and is of my Wife, our 2 sons and our daughter in law. And yes that's really me in the back. Our oldest son on the left is a teacher and Graduate of Illinois State University as is his wife, and our son on the right has a marketing degree from the University of Iowa. He did not want to end up behind a desk like his mom and dad so he enlisted in the U.S Coast Guard and is a chef stationed on board a bouy tendor in Kodiak Alaska. We are very proud of our children, and we are going to be Grand Parents for the very 1st time this July or August. We're hoping for a 8/8/08 birth but as long as the baby is health...Expand for more