• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Way O.T. Amazing Alaska !!

jerbear610

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This is way off topic but I just recently went on a seven day cruise
to Alaska and being that this is pretty much the only internet forum
that I belong to I thought I'd share a few pics. Being from Norcal I've
always been proud of the beautiful scenery we have here with the Sierra's
and coastal mountains but I can now say with complete confidence that
there is nothing that compares to Alaska and British Columbia.
We departed from Seattle and went up the Inland Passage to Juneao,
Glacier Bay, Sitka, Ketchikan, Victoria, B.C., back to Seattle.
I was so blown away by the amazing beauty of Alaska and all the islands
along the Inland Passage that I had to show someone. Coffee, I won't be
the least bit upset if you shitcan this as I know it's totally unrelated to
motorcycles. We saw lots of whales, even some Orca's , Bald Eagles
galore, Glaciers calfing (chunks breaking off and plunging into the water)
and just some amazing scenery. If you're the type of person who's intrigued by scenic, majestic mountains and wildlife I would recommend
checking out Alaska. I took hundreds of pics, here's a few. First one is
a Seattle pic for Motosportz.....:D
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And.. Last one (for good measure) is a couple years old.
 

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Beautiful! I'm glad to see your post, my son is going on a 7 day cruise with some family friends in August(They are leaving from Seattle just as you did so sounds like the same cruise). Looks like he's going to have a great time and see some beautiful countryside! Thanks for the pics, looks beautiful up there.
 
I did a similar cruise with NCL a few years ago, difference being we hit Skagway in place of Sitka you mentioned, and Sawyer Glacier..........well, attempted to get to Sawyer Glacier. It got so foggy back in there that you couldn't see the back half of the ship, so we had to turn around and come out. (fog horns are LOUD!)

I spent a lot of time up front on top deck, with breeze in face and a cold beer (or coffee/hot chocolate when it snowed on us one morning), watching the world go by and porpoises leap in front of the ship, while letting my work/life stresses just melt away.
I'm really hoping that I can do it again someday. (wife says we have to fly to Hawaii and do the cruise around the islands first, so it may be a many years before I can see Alaska again)
 
Great pics. Alaska has some beautiful scenery that's no doubt. I have a lot of family in Sitka and have spent lots of time up there. Every time I leave I ask myself why I don't just pack up and move up there full time.
 
I would kill to visit Alaska, I would definately kill to do some riding there. For that matter BC and Washington State are also highly desirable. It is so different to Oz. The rest of the USA is more typical of what we have here. By the way nice shots-Bet you had the best time.
 
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