I'm currently in Nome, Alaska. From Portland, it's about 5.5 hours of flying, and with all the layovers it works out to be 11 hours of traveling. Traci and I got to sleep for an hour or two on a bench in the Anchorage airport. Once again, we are blessed to have good weather and great host. We've been staying with our friends Chris and Lloyd Perrigo who live along seawall here in Nome. (I'll post pictures when I get back).

Sunday evening, we made a spur of the moment trip to Salmon lake (picture at right). It's about 35 miles outside of Nome. Mostly on gravel roads, which makes it about an hour trip. We left around 9PM (still plenty of daylight). It's a beutiful lake in which salmon return to spawn. There we cast out a net to bring in some Sockeye Salmon and brought in 12. (picture below)

Chris and Lloyd bringing in Salmon from the dip net.

Today, the plans are to rent a car and make a trip out to White Alice among other sites. There's limited road here, but it should be a great day of sight-seeing and experiencing more of Western Alaska.