Alaskan Dreams

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Andy Karella musters out of the Marine Corps after WWII and marries Betty his college sweetheart. </span>[TMM1]<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> As they take off across America on a working honeymoon Andy and Betty are still driven by dreams of bigger wilder adventures. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Making a</span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> spontaneous decision the newlyweds-along with Andy's brother Charlie and best friend Chauncey-begin a 3500 mile journey to the remote US Frontier Territory of Alaska in the spring of 1949. Their lives depend on what they carry with them in a 12-year-old Pontiac pulling a two-wheeled cart.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A trip thought to take weeks becomes months of hardship. They survive freezing temperatures ice and snow sucking mud rocks and ruts and clouds of biting insects as they discover the road is nothing but a primitive military trail. Only demilitarized since the fall of 1948 it leads them through the most isolated and inhospitable regions of the North American continent and they desperately hope it will get them to the frontier gold-mining town of Fairbanks. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the land of the midnight sun they reach the point of no return. Betty's secret is out. A baby is coming soon there's no money and a nine-month winter closes in on them. Anxiously they wonder is it possible to build a life in such a far-flung Territory? Do they have the courage and fortitude their immigrant ancestors possessed to live a life of unforgettable adventures in Alaska?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Find out in</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>Alaskan Dreams</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> book 3 in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A Family Born in the Land of Promise </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Saga.</span></p><p></p>