Hey.

My friend Tohru Saito and I are at the Anchorage International Chili's, enjoying free wireless internet and waiting for a flight to Bethel to join Kenji Yoshikawa on his spring snowmachine trip in the name of science.

We are traveling by snowmachine from Emmonak, on the mouth of the Yukon, to Kotzebue. Kenji estimates our travel time at two weeks to trace the westward-pointing nose of the Seward Peninsula. That's more than 800 miles.

Kenji will be installing permafrost boreholes at some of the villages we pass through, and I'll be looking at some weather stations and snapping some photos and such. I'll post some when I get a chance. This snogo travel, new to me but not to Kenji and Tohru, will allow me to carry this little miracle of a machine.

We accomplished the first hurdle in any major trip, getting out of town, and will soon get farther out.

Far out.