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So, Kotzebue. Meant to update when I was there but I forgot my camera cord. I worked my ass off during the day but really enjoyed my nights and weekends, despite the lack of any 'facilities' in Kotzebue. But just to make G in Fairbanks feel better, I had a horrible time. I absolutely did not shoot a little reindeer. I did not make a running head shot at 25 yards with my 30.30 with open sights (you would have given my high five for that shot....it dropped instantly). Of course it only about -3 when Iwas hunting so it does not count. I did not catch giant sheefish. I did not heavily arm myself and go for a ride all by myself in the arctic. Actually, that was exhilarating. Perhaps it was all in my head, but the sense of danger was awesome. I didn't know the country or the machine I was on. No one on earth knew where I was. I had no cell phone and very limited survival equipment. If anything had broken or I had gotten lost I could have just disappeared in the snow. Very cool.



















Let's see. I didn't race across the sea ice on snowmachines at 60 miles an hour. I didn't see a herd of muskox or any caribou or arctic fox. I didn't enjoy myself immensely. Too bad you went to San Francisco to have a 'Lemon Drop' in some fancy bar. The next time I invite you to Kotz and you don't come, you had better be sick or dead. You know as I was riding back from Caribou hunting yesterday, all I can think about is how strange life is. If, years ago, you had told me as I sat in 117 degree heat in California that one Easter Sunday I would have been racing across the sea ice with a sled full of reindeer, I am not sure I would have believed it. In five years I wonder what I will have done? Sipped wine under a Spanish sky? Walked on Egyptian sands? What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. Things I can't even imagine. Like how a little Native village perched on the edge of the sea will always have a special place in my heart. It wasn't just the way the sun came up when walking to work in -27. It wasn't just how people starting waving to me after a few days of 'living there'. It was the people I met, some of whom will live in my hearts forever. I can only hope that one day I make it back to Kotzebue. In some ways this trip saved me in every way that I needed to be saved.