Pico Iyer writes about “Alaska’s Great Wide Open” in this month’s Smithsonian.
I've lived in the American West for more than four decades, but I began to wonder if I had ever really seen—or breathed—true American promise before. Every time I stepped off a boat or plane in Alaska, I felt as if I were walking back into the 19th century, where anything was possible and the continent was a new world, waiting to be explored. – from “Alaska’s Great Wide Open,” by Pico Iyer, Smithsonian
I've lived in the American West for more than four decades, but I began to wonder if I had ever really seen—or breathed—true American promise before. Every time I stepped off a boat or plane in Alaska, I felt as if I were walking back into the 19th century, where anything was possible and the continent was a new world, waiting to be explored. – from “Alaska’s Great Wide Open,” by Pico Iyer, Smithsonian
