Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Back in the States!

After a long and joyful romp through South America, Audie and I are now back in the homecountry. Safe and sound....sano y salvo. We had a wonderful time exploring deserts, beaches, high mountain altiplanos, the Amazon jungle, Quechua-speaking villages, convents, mercados, emergency rooms, horse pastures, glaciers, and....on and on, all to be detailed soon, with lots of pictures, in our trip journal: theperipateticpaxsonites.blogspot.com

Yes, I had high plans of posting to the trip blog on our journey, but I should have known myself, and South America, better! Myself, because it's hard enough in the States to get my body to sit in front of a computer, and especially when I'm traveling and just want to soak up as many sights and sounds as possible. South America, because while there were more interent cafes than my last visit there, we were usually too busy to stop in, too tired to compose when we finally did sit down, and too scared at the exorbitant prices: at our Amazon lodge, $5 for every 15 minutes!

Audie will be back in Alaska very soon, and I'll be back shortly thereafter, after a quick visit in Arizona to pack up more of my books and precious things to ship north. Mom has very patiently guarded my things for years as I've been quite the gypsy, and I've slowly been bringing more and more to Alaska, but I finally want all my stuff in ONE place. So I'm making daily runs to the post office. Thank goodness the USPS hasn't done away with the still economical book rate!

AND finally...
We wish best of luck to the Iditarod mushers who used Denali Highway Cabins to train from this year: Sebastian Schnuelle, Rudi Niggemeier, and Rich Corcoran. We'll be rootin' for you guys! Iditarod starts March 1...just a few more days! If you're coming to Alaska for the first time this summer, learn about this important race, and who the mushers are, before you get here: www.iditarod.com

As the dog-athletes move out, we have a group of Canadian scientists moving in for a long spell. Always something interesting happening at Denali Highway Cabins! Please visit our website for Denali Highway Cabins & Tours at www.denalihwy.com