We invade a stranger's home in Juneau. Aug 11-Aug 13 Petersburg, Alaska B ack in San Francisco, sometime around March, we had posted a plea on an Internet newsgroup, searching for information on where to cheaply rent a canoe in Alaska.
Rentals are expensive here.
So we posted this thing on usenet. We got a response back from a guy named Tom who said he could lend us his canoe. Tom's messages were always terse so we never got an idea who he was, and he never asked about us either. As our Alaska arrival date got closer, he sent more notes, saying he might be on vacation when we arrived, but if he was, we could just grab the canoe. Then he sent another note saying we could also borrow his car, and stay in his house if he wanted.