First off, I didn't take this picture. One of the other folks on our Alaska trip took it using my camera... so it is not eligible for voting folks. But I had to include it.

Arvin and I have become known in the last several years as "The Chaikins of Bellingham." It began with a young friend (my son's age) and his daughter who came to visit regularly. He began saying, "I'm am a close personal friend of the Chaikins of Bellingham." This became a common phrase of other friends and soon it stuck... so you see before you, in beautiful SE Alaska, the Chaikins of Bellingham.