ALASKA:

The Land of the Midnight Sun

The summer of 1993, I went to work and explore Alaska with a college buddy of mine to make money at the fishing canneries and see the amazing landscape of the largest state in the U.S. I spent weeks out there that summer and have not been back since. Alaska is truly the Last Frontier and this slogan is on their vehicle license plates. Last year, I wrote and published a short book on Amazon on my Alaskan adventure titled, “Alaska: The Land of the Midnight Sun.” I included an excerpt from my book. After twenty-six years in federal law enforcement, I became a prolific writer and podcaster with close to eighty books published on Amazon including my autobiography titled, “ATF Undercover” detailing my dangerous undercover cases with repeat violent offenders, gang members, armed drug dealers, home invaders and other violent criminals.

My friend Eric and I decided to travel to Alaska in the summer of 1993 after graduating from Saint Leo College, now a university north of Tampa, Florida. I majored in political science and history and wanted to explore the great state of Alaska in my early twenties since neither one of us had been there. I found a book about camping and working in Alaskan fishing canneries. I called numerous canneries to see which ones were hiring college students and decided that Nikiski in the Kenai Peninsula would be a good fit about 170 miles from Anchorage.

There were many things we needed for this adventure including a solid tent, canned foods, sleeping bags, cooking utensils and camping gear. We found an…