Another Unknown

I've been in Anchorage, Alaska for rougly 33 days. I've worked at KTUU 23 days.

...is this enough time before the Photography Gods send me on my first "trip"?  We'll soon find out.

I'm off to Nome, Alaska in just a few short hours. This posting will also be short, as I need to get at least a couple hours' sleep tonight.  I am ready to embrace this trip, and am holding back a lot of excitement, as I don't want those emotions to overrun the logic needed to make sure I have all of the station's gear that I will need packed up well and correctly, and also to make sure that I have all of the winter gear needed to prevent myself from getting frostbite...or worse.  It's going to be a helluva trip and I'll be sure to take pictures so that I can share them with you all when I return. With any luck, I'll have some stories to share as well.  Did I mention that I have to learn how to drive a snowmachine (that's a snow mobile to all you folks back home) and I'll be flying from destination to destination on a plane that holds no more than 3 or 4 people...

WHO:  13 Mushers

WHAT: Alaska Sweepstakes

WHERE: Roundtrip - Nome, Alaska to Candle Alaska

WHEN: Sweepstakes begins Wednesday morning and will finish sometime Saturday evening. I leave Tuesday morning and will return sometime Saturday evening/Sunday.

WHY: The race is winner takes all - $100,000.00.  Part of the Mushers' entry fees had to be paid in Gold...they take this shit seriously.  This sled dog race is celebrating it's 100th Anniversary since the first run...the race has not been run in all 100 years; the last time it was run was 1983, the 75th Anniversary run.

Talk to you all in a week...

Temperature update: 33 degrees, few clouds in Anchorage. Temperature in Nome: 11 degrees and mostly cloudy.

Alaska trivia: Nome is the leftovers of the Gold Rush way back in the late 1800's and early 1900's...  "The discovery of gold in the Yukon began a gold rush in 1898. Later gold was discovered in Nome and Fairbanks". I also believe Nome is where "Balto" was born...