ABSTRACT
My wife is not a big traveler, but she has always wanted to go to Alaska to see the wildlife; so we signed up with National Geographic/Lindblad and went for two wonderful weeks. Jennifer is a hospice nurse, and what makes the story interesting is that for many years if you would ask her how, some day, she would like to die, her answer was that she would like to be eaten by orcas—those magnificent creatures sometimes called “killer whales” even though they are actually oceanic dolphins. She had recurring but not frightening dreams of a big orca devouring her—she had talked about it several times. And here I was, signing up to be in a two-person kayak in icy Alaskan waters teeming with orcas with someone who wants to be eaten alive!
