GREENE — Photographer John Holod will narrate his film “Alaska: RV Adventure of a Lifetime” Friday, Sept. 10, at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial.
More than 25 years ago, Holod traveled 1,400 miles of dirt road by motorcycle up the Alaska highway to visit the last frontier. The lure of the state has brought him back repeatedly over the years.
He will share some of his favorite places and offer tips on the best routes to travel in an RV and how to make the most of your travel budget.
The 85-minute film will cover Dawson Creek, Liard Hot Springs, Watson Lake sign post forest, Whitehorse museums, Dawson City’s Diamond Tooth Gertie’s, the North Pole Santa House, a Fairbanks Discovery River boat tour, the El Dorado gold mine, Danali National Park wildlife, flight-seeing, the Talkeetna Moose Dropping Festival, the Anchorage state fair, Kenail River fishing salmon and trout, Ninilchik clam digging, the Seward Sealife Center, Mountain Marathon, Kenai Fjords National Park, Valdez Prince Willian Sound, Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge, Skagway White Pass and the Yukon Railroad.
Holod has been a wildlife guide and country music guitarist and singer, and has become an internationally recognized photojournalist. He has lived in Colorado, Hawaii and Switzerland, and has traveled in North America, Europe, Cuba and the Eastern Bloc countries, mostly on motorcycle.
A native of Detroit, Holod studied cinematography, journalism and photography at Wayne State University. He made his first travelogue film at age 11, shooting from the back seat of his father’s motorcycle on a trip to the World’s Fair in New York in 1962.
“Alaska: RV Adventure of a Lifetime” will be shown at 2 and 7 p.m. Admission is free. Sawyer Memorial is at 371 Sawyer Road. For more information, call 946-5311 or visit www.sawyer-foundation.com.
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