Michael's backpack setting on a corner in Anchorage, Alaska

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I met my family in Alaska to travel with them for two weeks. They decided to go home, I requested to be left on this street corner in Anchorage so I could find a job. My thinking was a bank because that's where my experience was… it is what I knew how to do.

Then I met this guy who had been traveling for four years… he said "Don't get a job in a bank. Why don't you hitchhike four hours south to Homer and get a job on a commercial fishing boat?"

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