In a few hours I fly back to Anchorage. It's been snowing on and off for the last week, but also getting much colder: tomorrow night the forecast calls for temperatures down to -25 F, or -32 Celsius! Man. That's cold. I'm excited to run in that. Haven't run in anything colder than -10 F.
but the temptation was too strong.
(both taken at Arlo and Heidi's, in Sioux Center, Iowa)
but I didn't have any Christmas ornaments at my place back in Alaska. Arlo and Heidi do, and I'm here now, so there.
I didn't want to decorate my apartment. It would have reminded me of not being home.
In 2006 I didn't expect to:
- quit my job
- move to Alaska
- not run the NYC marathon after the Lake Placid half-marathon
- find an awesome church
In 2007, I expect to:
- not find myself working for a company that goes bankrupt
- run the Anchorage Mayor's Anchorage
- ski the 50K Tour of Anchorage
- climb a few local peaks in preparation for Denali (Mt. McKinley for those of you living in the lower 48)
- go home, at least for Christmas. Spending the holidays elsewhere kinda sucks. No apologies for the vernacular.
Sioux Center from the once-upon-a-time-cool-place-to-be farmhouse driveway.
The first 2007 Iowa moon, taken just after sunset.
8 hours later.
Sidenote: 2007 is NOT a prime. What a disappointment. I mean, it looked sort of promising.
