Summer 2006 It was the summer before 6th grade—back when summers felt endless and school breaks stretched on forever. This wasn’t technically my first “big” trip (I’d already tagged along to the Bahamas and Mexico as a tiny human), but it’s the first one I remember clearly, so it officially earns the title of Earliest Adventure Logged on This Here Blog. Our stops were Anchorage and Juneau, plus a couple of days in Vancouver. “We” included my mom, my grandma and her now-late h