Kortnie Day 3

Day 3 was a long one for me.

We woke up and went in to our first interview of the day, which was actually great. The guy we talked to was a whaling captain and part of a whole bunch of committies and stuff on climate change. Also just a really nice guy. In a small town like Barrow, we ended up seeing lots of people more than once, and he was one of those people.

After we spoke with him, we went on a long walk around town to scope out some pictures I could take later, as it was way too dark then. We found some cool spots, and after nearly freezing our legs off (well, maybe not, but it was 10 below with wind chill, people said), we ended up back at the "Quick Stop" for some coffee, where we saw him again, and we asked if we could use his phone to call the airport to see if we could drop off our luggage early, as our flight was supposed to leave at 3:00 and we had an appointment with the mayor at 1:30, which would mean we'd have to go across town to get our luggage, and then back. Luckily, we got ahold of them, because our flight had been canceled and they put us on an earlier flight that we had to check in for half an hour later.

So we called the Mayor's office to cancel, which worked out, because his assistant said he was going to have to cance too. Then we jumped in a cab and went back to Gary's, grabbed our stuff while the cab waited, and went to the airport. Our new flight was supposed to leave at 1:30, but we didn't leave til 2:30, just a half hour before our original (direct) flight was supposed to leave.

I was really bummed that I didn't get to take more pictures that day, but in general, the day was really dark. Yeah, I know the sun doesn't come up, but it was really windy and just a dark day.

So our puddle-jumper flight went from Barrow to Nuiqsut to Kivalina to Deadhorse to Fairbanks, I think that's the right order, and we ended up getting to Fairbanks at like 7:30. Our original flight was supposed to get in at 5:00. It wasn't a really big deal other than I was driving home for Thanksgiving (300 miles). I'd gotten ahold of the people riding with me while I was in Barrow (my phone just stopped working that morning for some reason... not the battery; no reception) so nothing went too bad, it was just a long drive. We left Fairbanks at like 8:30 and got to Big Lake around 3 a.m.