Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose.

Growing up, I was always prancing around and singing... and I just never really stopped.

My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.