Alaska Cruise - Skagway Statue

...so easy to travel up to these places and romanticize about what it must be like to live among the mountains, breathing some of the cleanest air on the planet and taking in the beautiful vistas every time you step outside.  But in reality it was a hardscrabble living that left a person beyond exhaustion and constantly in angst about whether a dollar could be made from day to day.  I once flew to a remote area of Colorado, outside of Durango, and made a comment to our host that it must be incredible to live in such a place.  He commented that he'd give me about a week to get tired of it.