Sometimes people ask me why I came up to Alaska from Las Vegas. They think (assume) that you can make so much money working as a dancer in Vegas. Compared to here. Well, I was tired of dancing in Vegas. Yes, I did have good nights working there and many super fun nights but like with many things, I was tired of it and ready to try a new club. I had plenty of bad night in Vegas too. Struggling to make the house fee and some kind of a profit. I had heard about dancing in Anchorage and I wanted to go there and try it out for a couple of years before I finally got tired of trying to talk Julia (a girl I used to work with) into going and went by myself. It was December and that is usually a slow month for dancing in Vegas when I came up to Anchorage for two weeks. I had already contacted the Great Alaskan Bush Company and gotten hired. And it turned out that I really liked working there and made great money. I should had came here when I first wanted to go, instead I waited for Julia and that turned out to be a bad idea and a waste of valuable time. That taught me a lesson! I flew home to Vegas and returned up to Anchorage for two more weeks in February to try it again, still liked the club and made good money. Went back to Vegas and decided to pack up my Toyota 4-Runner and come up for longer. Like six months or so. Well, it has been five years.
I have been back to Vegas since then, once for a six month stay and many shorter stays.
I have also traveled and worked in other clubs and after 2 1/2 years at the Bush Company I was over that place as well and no longer work there. The last six months or so at the Bush I thought that the quality of the clientele coming there had severely got worse (too many drunk kids with no money) and that it was difficult to make money, not only for me but for most of the girls. Too many bad nights. I also wanted to be able to make my own schedule and come and go as I pleased but you cant do that there. It still was a fun experience to work there and I made some good friends. Sometimes I am tempted to go and make an appearance and work there again for a while. I just don't think I would be able to deal with having to be there at 4 pm. That is way too early for me, torture! After I left they had another Tatiana there for a while.......Landis (one of the dj's) told me that there could ONLY be one Tatiana.....and that would be me. 🙂 Here is a pic of the Great Alaskan Bush Company.
The first time I came to Alaska I rented a room. The second time I stayed here, at the Alaska Backpackers Inn.
When I came up after that I had Chhaya with me and we lived downtown on Eagle Street.....here. Then it was called Eagle Street Suites now it is the Backpackers Annex.
Far from nice (when I lived there), actually quite bad. BUT it was the only place I could find that would allow a pitbull. And I called many places. Since Chhaya is my baby and I would never abandon her we stayed there. I liked the downtown location and it was close to some nice walks, the Coastal Trail, Westchester Lagoon and Ship Creek.
Now I live in a beautiful house in Kenai on 8 acres. Lots of room for Chhaya to roam around.
If you would had asked me 10 years ago about living in Kenai Alaska I would had said, "What, where is that?". Life is an adventure.
Kenai is nice but for the most part very, very boring. Boring to the point of driving me to insanity at times. Anchorage is more fun but I don't want to work there. And yes, I do miss Vegas at times. After all, there is only one Las Vegas and it can be absolutely amazing.
Btw we had 19 hours and 19 minutes of daylight here today, I love the summer in Alaska! ❤
And we make the same kroikey face. I have to show you my kroikey face sometime.
