Welcome to the Alaska Uncovered Podcast with your host, Jennie Thwing Flaming. Jennie brings you accurate, helpful and entertaining information about Alaska Travel and Life in Alaska. Guests include Alaska travel experts and Alaska business owners, guides and interesting Alaskans. Jennie is a born and raised Seattleite, a former Alaskan and spends several weeks in Alaska each year. She’s an experienced guide and the Founder of the Alaska and Washington travel website, Top Left Adventures. Jennie is joined by occasional co-host, Jay Flaming, her husband for more than 20 years. Jennie and Jay met working in tourism in Skagway, Alaska and also lived in Juneau and Fairbanks together. Jay lived in Fairbanks for 8 years before meeting Jennie in Skagway and grew up in Yellowstone National Park.
Jennie is a born and raised Seattleite, she also lived in Alaska for seven years and still spends several weeks a year there. Jennie is the Founder and Content Director for the Alaska, Washington and Western Canada travel website, Ordinary Adventures. She is also an experienced tour guide and a field editor for the Milepost. Jennie graduated from the University of Washington (BA) and the University of Alaska Fairbanks (M.Ed).
Jay Flaming has been married to Jennie for more than 20 years. Jay grew up in Yellowstone National Park and moved to Alaska when he was 17 for college. Jay has been a tour guide, mechanic, polar bear guard, professional story teller, archaeologist and cold weather car test engineer. He is also a photographer and mapmaker and graduated from both the University of Alaska Fairbanks (M.S.) and the University of Washington (M.S.)