We passed Point Barrow this morning, the most northern part of the USA. We have also sailed the Dry Tortugas in Florida, the most southern part of the USA. Turing the corner here means that we get to finally go south. The last week has been spent slowly going north again as we worked our way west along northern Alaska. It was getting colder and colder. We have crossed six time zones going west on this trip. It is good to be finally going south. It is good to be back in the USA. Today a real live person came on the radio and gave the weather and he sounded . . .normal. We didn't get to go into Point Barrow, but from the outside it looks like a real city. I bet there is even a McDonalds. I will Google this once we get internet. Precipice, Deb, Jannelle, and Bianca have all been out of the US for more than a year. Every little thing USA we see or hear is somehow comforting. Weird. We could just walk up to anybody and legally ask for a job! We could buy a gun! We could trade in our junk car for a government bail out! I could buy a gallon of something! I can tell a local that it is 35 degrees out today! The possibilities are endless.
The weather is supposed to be nice today and tomorrow and then get nasty. I will be waiting until tonight's weather briefing to decide if we are going to find a hiding spot or not. We are sailing now after two days of absolutely no wind and it is good.
Rolland for the Trowbridges
4 comments:
hmmm... are you saying you had enough of Canada?
Celsius and litres still await, unless you are you planning of bypassing B.C. on the way down....
Sorry, No McDonalds in Barrow, at least according to the McDonalds web site....
you may have to wait till Anchorage for that.
Dan
LOL...yes..and many Canadians can talk in gallons and Fahrenheit ....as that was always our system until a few years ago. In fact, some older Canadians only understand that system (my dad always asks me "What's that in Fahrenheit?"). We switched during my school years and as a result people of my age know both systems.
bilingual, eh?
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