Got the email today from the travel agency saying that they’d charged us a huge sum of money and would be sending us travel documents, so come July we’re off for a bit over a week of hard core tourism in and around the inside passage. Which sounds dirty, but just means the little squiggly bit of Alaska that’s down in the south west corner of the state.

We have many activities planned. We’re going to ride dogsleds and take helicopter tours and go on day cruises and go looking for bears.

That last bit strikes me as insane. Bears are big and eat people. Unless they are Gentle Ben, but I understand Gentle Ben is retired, has a nice place in the Valley and lives off royalty checks. We won’t be seeing Gentle Ben in Alaska. We’re more likely to see his cousin, Homicidal Bill.

I have a contingency plan should we go looking for bears and find them. It involves screaming and running.

On another note, the Acer Vista “Express Upgrade” came in today’s mail, so that’s the end of my involvement with Moduslink. I do feel some sympathy for them – from the sounds of things, they had no bloody clue what kind of mess they were getting in to when they took the Vista upgrade contract and if they’re to be believed they’re both a) losing bags of money on the whole thing and b) staining their reputation for generations to come.