Take-off is coming up quickly!

The picture above depicts the 300' sq ft storage locker after a good 70% of its contents had been removed.


The time since my last post has been fraught with tedium (cleaning out a 300' sq ft storage locker and paring it down to 100' and then 50' sq ft), melancholy (everyone of you I look at and everywhere I look), and - of course! - drama (I spent a day in U of M Hospital beginning last Thursday evening as they wrestled down my blood pressure from 179 over 120 to somewhere approaching normal.


I received the $$ for the defective roof top tent which I sent back and for all but loading my car (this will actually take three days as I get it to perfection - no extra weight) and saying "good bye", I am gone.


We're coming on a melancholy season, Fall, and it's just by a hair that my optimism conquers that feeling.  But conquer it it does. So let's get on with it!

I received an e-mail today from one of the owners of the Aurora Borealis Lodge in Fairbanks. It was in response to a call I made to him last week inquiring about seasonal winter help at his lodge which serves Japanese tourists coming in every year to watch the Northern Lights, the greatest light show on earth.  He is all set with seasonal help but gave me the name and contact information of a principal at a package tourist agency in Anchorage specializing in Asian clientele, especially Japanese. I will follow up and keep you posted.


Thanks for your continued interest and I look forward to you joining me later this week as we take off.


Ciao!


Chris