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A Summer Vacation To
Remember
by Gary Kameroff
On the third day of May,
1992, my first day of my summer vacation began. I was just
getting out of a fun and exciting school year at Mt.
Edgecumbe High School. On that day I boarded a 737 Alaska
Airlines Flight into Anchorage. At Anchorage, my younger
sister and I contacted my older sister Janice who came to
pick me up from the airport. We stayed at my sister Janice's
place for two nights and three days.
The day I got there I went
out to Fireweed Theater to meet my girlfriend. We saw the
movie K-2 and it wasn't that bad a movie. After the movie,
we took a cab to the Westmark Inn near downtown Anchorage to
meet some people and check out the Senior Bash. No one
showed up though, so we took separate cabs back to where we
stayed.
The second day I slept in,
then went out to the University Mall. We
shopped there a while and
ate pizza at the Round Table Pizza. That night I stayed home
and watched movies.
After a couple days of fun,
we went home to Marshall. As soon as I got there it was cold
and it felt very lifeless. The next day it was a little more
exciting though, because I went out on a hunting trip with
my uncle David. A few weeks later I went on another hunting
trip with Charlie T. and James Edison. We took off upriver
by snow machine for Ingrihak. Just below our fishcamp,
approximately eight miles upriver from Marshall, we tried
crossing a creek, but we didn't make it across. The ice
beneath couldn't hold the weight of the snow machine and the
the track spun and we started to sink. Two seconds later,
the water passed over my knee boots and I jumped off the
snow machine. I grabbed onto some ice and got up. When I
looked back, the snow machine and sled were already under
water along with the shotguns and gear. Charlie swam for
shore and made it. James then zoomed across the ice and
water and got me. A few minutes later we were laughing and
making a fire to dry up.
Later the next month in June
I began commercial fishing with my dad and started earning
some money. The fishing season this summer was short, but we
still made a lot of money during the short fishing periods.
All summer I tried to keep myself occupied, taking boat
rides, swimming and going on camping trips. Then all too
soon school started.
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