Kayaks, Packing & the final days of Nome

0Josh • 24th Aug 2005 • blog entries, nome., station life

I guess no one is going to pay for the myfamily site eh?

A week from now we will be starting our journey home and then on to Cascades, its hard to believe that our year in Alaska is almost come to an end… I don’t think its really set in yet that we’ll be living at camp, driving our car, seeing our families, and living a whole different life one month from now. I guess there are only so many ways to say that is a weird feeling and I don’t feel ready to leave while also extremely excited for what is in store. I’m sure I’ll do some more reflecting later, I’m not done yet.

We had a pretty good weekend, on Saturday we drove out to Salmon Lake Bible camp where our church was having a family camp. We just stayed for the afternoon but still had an enjoyable time. The camp is about an hour out of town and we left Nome around 12 or so. We had agreed with Jamie to caravan out around 11, he was going to be bringing the Community Center kayaks and Lydia agreed to “lifeguard” during their use. We woke up Saturday morning around 11:30 or so to Jamie at our front door….we must have been tired or something. W finally got out there and got the kayaks in the river that feeds into Salmon Lake. It was a blast paddling down river and then across the lake to a hiking spot. After a quick hike up to some falls, and then paddling back across the lake to camp we pretty much jumped right back in the truck and headed home.

Here is a picture of me getting some water out of a natural spring on the trip back ….real natural with the PVC and everything, huh? The water is pretty good though.

I’ve been working with the team of students that I went to Shaktoolik with on recording a CD down in the KICY recording studio, great project to start right before I leave, huh? After a handful of sessions over the past few days hopefully we will be able wrap things up tomorrow. I’ll be sure to post audio when we get things done.

There is lots of packing and general wrapping things up left to do before next Thursday evening when we high tail it out of here (hopefully, we are on standby passes all the way down to Seattle). Keep us in your prayers!

P.S. Stay tuned early next week for a report on what could be our last great adventure up north.