Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Well, well, almost a year has gone by from my last entry. I thought I have a unique experience to share again with all you. Please excuse myself i have to warm up my typing digits and brain.

Yesterday I landed in Barrow, Alaska. Top of the world, baby!!!! At a tropical -27F it felt perfect. Getting off the plane (737, not a small crop duster thank god), we proceeded to the front of the plane. Noticing that there was no jet way, just the outdoors. Not like in Palm Springs were you get off and immediately smell flowers and palms. This was more off an instant nose hair freeze. Still not as bad as you would imagine. I could only wonder what these two little baby Parakeets were thinking when they felt the cold. Yes, Parakeet. An elder was sitting next to me, who had these two birds for her grandchildren. Funny, traveling far north with tropical birds.

I get in, meet Ray my driver and his pregnant girlfriend Susan. As we left the airport it was still sunny, but sunset was approaching.

*****Update****** Pick up first food delivery 1:03 pm -35f with wind chill -50F****update*****

so he asked if I wanted a quick tour of everything. Being so stoked to be there I said, "Hell yeah". So we cruised around from east to west. Only to have all the backseat windows to be fogged up. So when its -35f outside and you have three people breathing inside a car, it tends to fog up. So needless to say Barrow looked like a foggy inside window. We stopped out at the point, (Point Barrow, the furthest north place in North America) snapped a few photos of the sunset and off to the hotel or home for the next five weeks.