Alaska dreams : the Alcan Highway

Isa Rodriguez

Alaska dreams : the Alcan Highway

  1. Featured in Community Red bubble Weekly News!!.. I am thrilled by this humbling mention. thanks RED Bubble

this is an image I took.. when on the trail from Fairbanks Alaska .. down the Alcan Highway.. info here
I drove all the way to Florida.. and left Alaska behind… (4,999 miles trip )

There I learned about a more peaceful life.. I learned there was hope in all circumstances. I learned to pause before speaking.. I met my Lord and savior there..
this is actually in Canada, in the Yukon territory, and these hubcaps.. in the form of Totem poles are part of a collection of the store owners.. so typical of the humor of these guys.. many a people come down this trail,

which is over 1000 miles long , down the Canadian rockies.. and I guess, they leave many a hubcap along the way.

but the vision you see in the background is Alaska.. we were close to the border.. Ill never forget this trail.


my son and I slept in the car just left of here.. and when we woke up, I took this image..
  • camera : a disposable one of those kind

this is in special dedication to my bubbler friend : Anibal, for she dreams of visiting this place

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Alaska dreams  : the Alcan Highway  by Isa Rodriguez
Alaska dreams  : the Alcan Highway  by Isa Rodriguez
  • Isa Rodriguez

    Isa Rodriguez

    lo.. thats my shadow on the bottom left.. I dont have fancy program to take that away :)

  • Rosalie Scanlon

    Rosalie Scanlon

    Great image Isa, you could crop the shadow out.

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    hi Rosalie .. thank you ..I think you are right :) .. I thought I tried that and it might have taken awy the depth, I believe.. that was a while back that I tried though.. I loaded this one as a quick helo ofr love and smpathy for Anibal .. so , I will work on it on Picasa and see :) did you read that story :) .. she loves Alaska, and should love to visit it someday .

  • Isa Rodriguez

    Isa Rodriguez

    I did it :)

    I just switched it.. :) lol.. I hope that looks beter :)

  • Bootiewootsy

    Bootiewootsy

    Lovely image… Thanks for sharing your trip..

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    thank you .. it is my pleasure to share with you .

  • Anibal

    Anibal

    awww you are so sweet you remembered my frosty dream of going here one day…. Isa you are so dang sweet more then words can express thank you my dear friend…..xoxoxoxo

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    heya hunny!!. this “poped up”.. and I decide to say hi again.. snce that was in the old days when comments were not directly under the comment .. lol!!!

  • Isa Rodriguez

    Isa Rodriguez

    :)

    oh, I remember.. xoxoxox .. Im glad you like :)

  • Agnes McGuinness

    Agnes McGuinness

    This is a lovely and interesting shot, Isa. And your story is so inspiring. Agnes xx

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    thank you so very much , Agnes.. it was a trip to remember.. for sure!..

  • Chookas

    Chookas

    Love the layers of Ekphrasis here – yours about how this scene is your interpretation of a happy culture and also for the Hubcap Interpretation of Cultural Totems lol – such is the times! I wonder what Historians in the next 2000 years will make of them? _ Valuable collectors items or just puzzlement or perhaps wondering if the person who owned them was a great warier!!! lol [worrier! lol]
    ☼ BRAVO !! ☼

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    oh!!.. my dear friend.. I am so in love with your ways!.. you so make me happy.. and your critique is so innovative and so thoughful.. You are the best I know at this.. !.. and by far.. I so so am moved by what you said..

    those hubcaps for sure, wil always be a nig part of my humor, my hopes and dreams for simplicity , my way of seeing things.. muah to ya!

  • chen cohen

    chen cohen

    gorgeous!!! i love this image!!! love the colors of it!!! well done isa!!!

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    oh !,, chen. I always miss you when ou are gonne.. he he.. I adore your comments!.. I truly do ! ..

    you must think I am crazy.. but its just this connection I always feel.. hugs, my friend.

  • dpennyor

    dpennyor

    OH, a dream trip I’ll make someday!! very beautiful and thanks for sharing!!

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    this is one of dearest memories.. believe it or not.. this one almost makes me cry every time I see it..

  • dpennyor

    dpennyor

    yep, I totally understand… gonna make it someday for sure!! my dream vacation.

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    the alcan.. highway.. you gotta go to that link and read up n it.. six months only !.. it took for them to make this highway.. soldiers made it for ww2.. I lived in Alaska 18 years..

  • dpennyor

    dpennyor

    really?? 18 years in alaska… you are an expert on it then. sooooo want to go there. I tried to get a job up there and move but didn’t get it.

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    keep trying.. but!.. you can also just drive up and plant yourself there.. oh my !.. homesteading I think is allowed in some places.. but start in the summer.. start in end of April.. take plenty of cold weather gear.. and plenty of mosquito spray.. and your eight grandkids..

  • CanDuCreations

    CanDuCreations

    Beautiful work Isa

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    thank you , !!!!!!!!!

  • Sally Omar

    Sally Omar

    Beautiful!!!!!!!! xoxoxoxoxo

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    thank you :) did you read my story..its my favorite one .. im such a bad writer.. a better editorialist maybe ?

  • dpennyor

    dpennyor

    wow!!! what a story isa!! what an amazing, wonderful woman.

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    awwwwwww. and now you are gone from the bubble!.. i miss you .. lol!!!!!!

  • lanebrain photography

    lanebrain phot...

    Isa….Funny I grew up not to far down the road from you at Eielson in a different time. I remember this place well. We stopped here to get a tire fixed and the guy that was fixing tires was to drunk so my father fixed it….not sure if he paid or not? LOL!! Great image and thanks for a trip down memory lane!! Terry

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww..Terry

    i cant believe you know this place!!!!!!!!..it is in the yukon territory !.. I am sure!!!!1.. so you drove the alcan?????
    thanks so much for visiting this picture.. :)))) and my story ..xx

  • Alexanderargyll

    Alexanderargyll

    great image…...............and narrative Isa

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    thanks o very much , Alexander

    what a lovely thing to say.. enjoyed telling my story !

    Isa

  • jarede

    jarede

    thank you for sharing…its beautiful!! the shot and the story…..bubble hugs

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    aw. thanks hunny!. sorry took so long to get back with you .. what like six month????? lol! love ya always..

  • F.A. Moore

    F.A. Moore

    Wow, I found it! Gee. 6 months old and deep in your portfolio. How did RB/Community/Nat ever find this one!? lol. Congratulations, Isa. It is a compelling story!

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    lol.. and aw.. I know.. how did they find this ? super “buried” in my portfolio.. I am so happy they did ..thanks ..to me the Alcan Highway deserves a spot in the sun .. this highways story alone should.. and then of course my little story .:).. thanks frannie

  • Rosalie Scanlon

    Rosalie Scanlon

    Wow, WTG Isa, congrats on your Community News feature.

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    yay!. thanks rosalie.. I am so glad you came to visit again:).. you are so sweet. ♥♥

  • DoreenPhillips

    DoreenPhillips

    WooHoo…...Another one I had missed…......I am so sure we had a conversation about this?????.............I’m thinking that you might have put this in one of your story journals or 50 things…....Anyhoo…......It is a Great Great Image Isa…..and so many big Congrats and hugs to you…..........and Much Love…....I would Love Love Love to go on a Road trip with you…......xxx

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    o, girl…...... one of these days….. xoxoxoxox …. we will take a road trip .. you can count on it.. oh yeah.. thanks prima.

  • F.A. Moore

    F.A. Moore

    Congratulations on being featured
    Inside Solo magazine, vol. 8!


    Inside Solo is the Art News and Resource magazine from Solo Exhibition.

    Click the link, top, to go there and see the magazine and your feature.

  • Isa Rodriguez replied

    o, Frannie!. now Thats a way to wake up .. to a wonderful news spot:).. thanks bunhces.. you are a true lovely woman.. the diversity of the art there floors me.. and I admire your unique gift of artistic ways to present The RB community.. it is super appreciated.

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