"nome" update

"Nome" is hopping this week. Dallas Seavey mushed into town on Tuesday at 4:04 am. My favorite, Ally Zirkle (above), came in 2 minutes later. Bonnie and I went to bed early so we could get up at two and wait for their arrivals. Only 13 mushers are left on the trail.

Word arrived that Sharon, David and Barb are about 224 miles from the finish line. They should make it by the end of next week. Lydia and Adonis left the day after they arrived.

We've learned a lot this trip. Nome is called Siqnazuaq in the native Iñupiaq language. It was incorporated in 1901. And more about panning for gold than I'd ever care to know.

Bonnie and I have had a lot of time to walk. There are no Volkssport walks in Nome—just in Fairbanks and Anchorage. So we made our own. We have found four schools, and the University of Alaska—Northwest Campus. No Volkssport walk is complete without a college campus. We have walked every square inch of this town. Someday I'd like to come during the summer and take one of the Bering Strait cruises.