- How long have you lived in Alaska and why are you still here?
- I came up to get away from a divorce. I had a bad divorce, I was married almost 30 years, it was OK relationship but in the last part of it my wife at the time filed for divorce, I signed the papers and in two weeks moved out of the house, she let her boyfriend in. I knew somebody was going to get hurt and I needed to get out of the town so I came up to Alaska for a couple of months. This was in 2006. I came up here experiencing totally new freedom. When I left the state of Montana and the ranch and the marriage it was a totally new start. I lost everything: I gave away everything. Before I came to Alaska, I owned two houses, a business, several cars, raised four kids. And when the divorce hit I had nothing: the houses, cars, I surrendered it all. And when I got up to Alaska I was suicidal, it was a mental disaster for me for quite a while. It was early in my journey when I got up here that I discovered: my junk owned me. My stuff owned me. My houses… I was working two weeks out of every month just to pay interest on the houses and cars. Then I discovered that I actually had total freedom and that stuff didn't own me anymore, beautiful opportunity to go on a journey for myself and discover…