11/23/23
“Adversity at times can bring out the best in us.” Admin
It was well after midnight when I stepped out of the taxi onto the Alaska Pacific Seafoods parking lot in Kodiak, Alaska. A whipping wind drove snow into my eyes and I shivered in the single-digit temperature.
“Here ya go,” the taxi driver said as he hauled my gear out of the trunk and dropped it in the snow. He climbed back into the cab and drove away. “Wait!” I wanted to shout. “Don’t leave me here. I can’t do this crazy job after all!”
But the taxi’s taillights disappeared into the darkness. I’d never been on more than a ferryboat in my life. What on earth had I been thinking when I signed up for a job monitoring catches on fishing boats in the Gulf of Alaska?
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