Viewpoints
Midway in the season
by June Allen
July 08, 2004
Thursday
Here we are, approaching the middle of July -- and that's the
half-way mark of the cruise ship visitor season. The streets
and shops are crowded with excited visitors enjoying their adventures,
seeing all the sights and...very often... asking the funniest
questions! Those delightful tourist questions and observations
will brighten even our the grayest, chilliest, wettest mid-winter
day! And don't think you Ketchikan folks are the only ones in
Alaska to hear some lulus from our eager visitors.
A Fairbanks News-Miner columnist recently included in his column
a couple of tourist comments that more than equaled our own Ketchikan
whoppers! Up there, the trans-Alaska pipeline is one of the sights
tourists are eager to see. Along the highway just north of Fairbanks
visitors can see a section of the oil pipeline up close, at that
location a long stretch of shiny, four-foot-across pipe nestled
on sturdy stilts.
One lady tourist remarked that "she was sure she could hear
the oil barrels clanging" as they traveled down the pipeline
to Valdez!
Another, after hearing a tour guide's little talk about the pipeline
being cleaned by a device called "a pig" that is sent
down the pipeline regularly, said, and I quote courtesy of the
News-Miner, "That poor pig! I wonder what shape he was in
when he got out of there!"
You gotta love it! I for one think life is all about human foibles
and laughter! So save your funny tourist remarks and share them
with us!
June Allen
Palmer, AK - USA
Note: Comments published
on Viewpoints are the opinions of the writer
and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Sitnews.
Post a Comment -------View Comments
Submit an Opinion - Letter
Sitnews
Stories In The News
Ketchikan, Alaska
|