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Published: October 26th, 2009 10:54 AM
Last Modified: October 26th, 2009 10:54 AM
Link: Smithsonian magazine Correspondent and author Pico Iyer -- "not an outdoors person" -- pays his first visit to Alaska as the state celebrates its 50th anniversary. He determines he has entered "the realm of the possible," a land that almost forces its inhabitants to dream big. "Hours after I touched down, from California, I set my watch back an hour, walked the few small blocks of downtown Anchorage (ending abruptly at a great expanse of water) and realized I was surrounded by Canada, Russia and the Arctic. The unpeopledness and scale of things made me feel as if I had fallen off the edge of the earth, into an entirely otherworldly place like nothing I had ever seen (with the possible exception of Iceland or parts of Australia). ... You don't come to Alaska for its cities, I started to understand, but for everything that puts them in their place." Check the photo gallery here.
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