Homer, Alaska: Almost Perfect Except For...

Homer, Alaska in the summer. It's quite a destination. There's beauty all around. Friendly, creative people. Adventures around every turn. It's almost perfect, except for one of the most iconic features in the town.

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Come along and travel the world with Richard Green. Retiring in the spring of 2023, I am embarking on full-time world travel. I'm going solo, but the idea here is not to focus on me so much. It's about the places and the people along the way.

The title Old, Alone and Far From Home might initially come across as a sad state of being. My mission is to show that it's just the opposite.

[vincentlittrell]

I graduated from High School in Homer in '86, worked a couple of summers in the harbor after graduation and with the exception of a weekend in the 90s and another weekend in 2003, I haven't been back. I miss it. Thanks for this video. I used to clean the fish cleaning stations in the harbor (one of my duties as a "harbor assistant" which was my job title for the two summers I worked there)...kind of fun to get the memories back watching this. There are obviously changes since I lived and worked in Homer in the 1980s ('81-'86 which were my 8th-12th grades and then the summer of '87 too) but the great views and the spit boardwalk and the Salty Dawg all look the same! I live in Virginia now and have seen much of the world since my Homer days but that town stays in my heart. It was a magnificent place to spend some key formative years of my life.

[jburnett]

A quaint little drinking village with a fishing problem. I had a great time.

[cmbtking]

I just had a 10 day trip to the Kenai Peninsula the same week you were in Homer for this, that first week of solidly beautiful weather mid July. It was an unforgettable experience.

In Homer we water taxied out to Tutka Bay to fish and kayak and camp, then we took a float plane tour out of Beluga Lake. Awesome few days in Homer.

[thegrayknight]

Great video. Thx. What a beautiful place.

[NomadLifeKiwi]

This is a great video, very informative. And I like your style! Thanks for sharing. We're heading up that way this year 🙂

[mikestirewalt]

When I was a kid growing up in Anchorage, 1953 to 1966, I remember thinking that having a house on the cliffs above Kachemak Bay would be the most beautiful place in the world to settle down and not go anywhere else. I got to know an old miner who lived on the cliffs, Bruno Agostino. He lived and died alone in a one room cabin and gave his property to the Catholic Church when he passed away. I've never been back to Homer since the 60's and now it's probably too late unless my health takes a new turn, but thinking about it is fun thanks to the internet.

Boy, Seldovia sure looks all "cleaned up" from when I worked over there on the Flying Shark and in canneries. It's barely recognizable from what it looked like back when it was a very busy port.

[pri_rv]

We were there in late July ‘23 and I really liked the Spit! 🤷‍♀️

[BethanyRaja-twhl]

The Homer Spit was the best part of my childhood.

[shenny.d]

Out of all the businesses in Homer I would gladly continue to support Captains Coffee; they’re good people!

[stevegabbert]

I was there in 92', on my motorcycle from Illinois. They had a great place to eat then called, Cafe' Cups, if I remember right. It had some really classy dishes, and racks of books you could read while waiting for your food. For some reason, it felt a little like home so I stayed an extra day.

[beldendemecilio]

Thank you for sharing this video and I liked it.

[phyllisgovia]

It’s too bad you didn’t get to see the big fishing tournament. That was pretty amazing.

[downstreamup]

I have lived in Homer since 2008. Beautiful place, a lot of good people. Quite in the winter, bustling in the summer. Even though quite in the winter there is still much going on in town. With one road in and out in one sense it is almost like living on an island set in a vast vibrant wilderness. I love the Spit. There is much to access there in the summer and peaceful and quite in the winter making for great walks on the beach. The homer to Soldotna area is fisherman's paradise.

[EdwardNagel]

I tripped upon this video while feeling a little homer-sick ( no, not misspelled ). It's been 40 years since I've been there and 45 since I worked there for two very short years. There is no place prettier on this planet and I enjoyed working on the spit most of all... with the occassional break taken in the Salty Dawg. You'll never find another place like it.

[mattygalactic]

LOL at the Salty Dawg Saloon take. Not sure what you were expecting but take your hipster opinion somewhere else. Camped on the spit for two nights last year. Amazing.

[juliewoods]

I visited there in the early 1970s when I was stations at Ft. Richardson.

[SunriseTravelGal]

Artisans and farmers markets are a draw in many places we travel to! As well as good coffee shops and bakeries. Is your niece from Alaska or the PNW? Thanks for another interesting video.

[GeneHill-so]

Homer used to be an amazing place. But People from the lower 48 bought every up and it's to expensive to live here anymore. Dumpy houses for 400 K and over populated and people just keep coming. The summers suck because the tourists take over the town and it's hard for people living here to get things done. Yes Homer is beautiful but it's being ruined by all the out of state companies buying up all the land around town and tuning vacant home into Air B and B and the local can't find a place or afford the rent.

[abdulazizsaleh]

This is awesome episode...i do love it 💯👌🏻🇸🇦💐

[Erniethebear]

The last time I went to Homer was during "the virus of unknown origin:":. Restaurants couldn't get enough workers to stay open for a full schedule, and many were closed completely. The grocery store looked like it had been hit by a swarm of locusts, so I spend the three days living on cheese, crackers and smoked sausage, and one seafood meal on the Spit. I guess it was kind of my own fault. I didn't check before I went.