Alaska News

Today's entry is more a news item than a blog.

When we entered Alaska, we passed through an area where a wildfire had crossed the road just a day earlier and was still burning not far from the highway.  It was so sad to see many acres of destroyed forest that were left in the wake of the burn.  Today, as I write this, there are two major fires involving thousands of acres of the Alaska landscape; one to our North in the Willow area and another to our South near the Sterling highway.  In Willow, there have been hundreds of mush dogs evacuated.  We are far enough away from both fires, but we can see a bit of the smoke from time to time.  The one in the Sterling area started just a short time after we went through that area on Sunday.

Yesterday marked the fourth consecutive day of high temperatures in the 80's in Anchorage, breaking a record from the 50's.

For those you that have not had the experience of the Summer sun in Alaska, you might find it interesting to hear that we attended a softball doubleheader on Wednesday with the first game starting at 8:45 pm on a field with no lights and the sun was just setting when we were leaving the field after 11:30.  Tonight the sun will set at 11:42 and it will not get completely dark at all before sunrise at 4:20 am.