see the northern lights again

I saw the lights very briefly from an Ontario highway. We could not stop. I would like to be staying somewhere underneath them. Or, better yet , see them from outer space.

saw them once when I was five…absolutely stunning…then mom said we had to go inside or we’d get pneumonia…I still remember that amazing green color dancing in the sky

Lived in Alaska in 1979-80 and loved watching them

About a year ago, on the boat from Finland to Denmark:
Some faint ‘curtain-like’ green lights in the sky. It only lasted about 10 minutes, and was pretty faint, but still:
BEAUTIFUL! MESMERIZING!

Must do this again. :)

The most beautiful thing I have ever laid eyes on. They make me grateful for the gift of sight, and they make me feel like I’m ten years old once more.

I saw them when we pulled over for a break last year at 11 at night. Quite a rare sighting in Britain. Oh my Gawd!! It wasd the most amazing thing I’ve ever witnessed. Really can’t describe how beautiful they were. Didn’t know what it was at the time which made it even more amazing! Would love to see them in a different country where they aren’t so rare and closer.Wow!

I spent a summer up in Denali in college. I had begun by waitressing that summer, then suddenly realizing, I could do the very same thing in Alaska, and be in Alaska. It was awesome! Truly awe inspiring, all of it. I think it changed my neural network, being in a place that’s truly wild, not really owned by humans - running into moose on my way to get my mail, a grizzly after dinner (still day light). Walking days without seeing another person. And at the end of the summer, when the nights were dark enough to see the northern lights, I just stopped sleeping. I worked evenings, so I’d take day trips in the park then, then after work, stay up all night watching “the show”. And then had weekends for overnight backpacking. So mind-altering - naturally.

And I came away with amazing memories, feelings, knowledge, and pictures. And I made some money doing it (although not as much as people who do fishing, canning, or crabbing—but these are dangerous jobs, where you work 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, so don’t expect to do much sight-seeing then). But any one little part of it would have been worth the trip: true back country hiking and camping; close encounters with grizzly, porcupines, moose, caribou, dahl sheep, orcas. I can’t believe i even took the puffins for granted, didn’t have a single picture of them, even though they’re as common as pigeons. The ethereal blue color of glaciers. The soft cushy feeling of tundra under your hiking boots, or mattress pad. Amazing training by the rangers on how to survive, blend in. Foraging for berries, and greens. The northern lights, how could anyone doubt that there is something sentient about them.

Once when we lived in Memphis there was some sort of solar activity that resulted in the northern lights being visible in our area. It was awesome. Having seen them that far south, I’d really like to see them up in the more northerly regions. It would really be a blast.