The good life

Like we always do it this time

I go for mine, I got to shine

Now throw your hands up in the sky

I g-go for mine, I got to shine

Now throw your hands up in the sky

I'mma write the Skagway News mama, I'mma, I'mma put this down

(Hey!) Hey (hey!) hey (hey!) hey (hey!)

I'm good

Welcome to the good life

Where homies that sail seas

Can't wait to go zip-lining in they new trees

The good life, let's go on a fishing spree

Shoot, they say the best meals in life are free

The good life, it feel like Vancouver,

It feel like Fairbanks, it feel like Haines Junction,

It feel like Skagway, summer in A.K., 'eyyy

(Now throw your hands up in the sky)

So I'm gettin' a tan

Y'all say betcha can't, I say Ketchikan, quarry

And she got them boots,

I just saw a bear, I got to look, sorry

Yo it's got to be 'cause I'm salmoned

Haters give me them smoky looks, dory

Soapy told me to do it for the benefits

And if they hate then let 'em hate

And do it for the halibut

Now I, I go for mine, I got to shine

Now throw your hands up in the sky

Now I, I go for mine, I got to shine

Now throw your hands up in the sky

I'mma write the Skagway News mama, I'mma, I'mma put this down

(Hey!) Hey (hey!) hey (hey!) hey (hey!)
I'm good

Welcome to the good life

Where we like the guys who ain't on TV

'Cause they got more (beards than the models)

The good life, so keep it coming with the sunlight

'Til she feel snoozed like Soapy in a gunfight

The good life, it feel like Juneau,

It feel like Healy, it feel like D.C.,

It feel like Whitehorse, Glacier Bay, or the A

'Ey, this is the good life

(Welcome to the good life)

Jewelers, tell me what's good

Why I only got a problem when you in the hood?

(Welcome to the good life)

Like I'm new in the town, the only thing I wish?

I wish I stayed year-round

(Welcome to the good life)

You wanna mine some gold, but, but,

You can't stand the cold

(Welcome to the good life)

Soapy told me to do it for the benefits

And if they hate then let 'em hate

And do it for the halibut

The good life

Welcome to Skagway

Today I finished writing all my stories for the next issue, so I can take some time to reflect on my first week in Skagway. Many of you are probably wondering why I chose to spend my summer in a tiny Alaska town. I am unable to provide you with an answer at this time, but I'm working on it. I promise.

My first full day here was spent exploring and getting to know the town. However, Skagway is just five streets wide and 23 streets long, meaning I was able to explore and re-explore the entire town multiple times before lunch.

That day was significant for me in that it was the first time in my life I have been interested in history. In a word, Skagway is badass. It was incorporated in 1887 and exploded in population a decade later when word of the Klondike Gold Rush spread across the United States. Thousands of "stampeders" dropped everything and moved to Alaska in the late 1890s in hopes of striking it rich in Dawson City.