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.