I know a little about her political career, but I don't care. I don't really pay attention to politics. What I do know is when you just look at her as a person, she seems fun and friendly.
One of my grandfathers always used to talk about Alaska and his time being stationed on the Aleutian Islands during World War II. So I grew up hearing all these stories of how awesome Alaska was (the state itself, not the military part obviously).
Hearing all that from him made me want to visit. I love the cold and snow - Alaska's got both. And the sky there at night (sometimes during the day even) has got to be amazing with a full starscape and the aurora borealis.
I wouldn't want to live there, but visiting would be cool. At the moment though, that's not going to happen for me. But at least I can see some of it on this series. And being on TLC (a part of the Discovery Networks), the show looks incredible.
While a lot of the first episode focused on Sarah Palin and her family, about half the episode did show off the beauty of Alaska. And honestly, how can anyone be offended by this show when that moronic 19 Kids & Counting is on before it. Now that's one reality show I could live without.
Some of the Alaska portions in this first episode included fishing near bears (watching the bears would be fun to me, the fishing not so much) and glaciers and Mt. McKinley in Denali National Park. I can't really describe these parts of the show - you just have to see it.
One of the parts about Sarah that was interesting involved some guy moving next door to her family. All he does is watch what goes on at her home while writing an expose on her. No matter who you are, that's just wrong. I put him in the same class as paparazzi. But I like how it seems he'll be a joke throughout the show.
Another part showed where she does many of her TV interviews. That was cool because I always thought that Alaskan view was just a backdrop - how awesome is it that that's the real thing back there.
It's an eight episode series and it continues next Sunday night at 9pm on TLC. Or catch it as it replays about 487 times throughout the week.
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