When my friend Jason traveled from Knoxville to Nome the other week, he seemed to bring a few suitcases full of that warm Southeastern sunshine with him. The evening he arrived was the first of about a week of snow melting, come-out-and-play kind of weather. And what does one do after spending an Alaskan winter [...]
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Parental Advisory.
My parents don’t travel very much so when they told me just a few short months ago that they were coming to visit me in Nome, I was pretty blown away. In my past three years of service my mom and dad have only had a couple of opportunities to peek inside my day to [...]
A Warm Hello.
Bethel is known for its taxi services. In fact, the city is estimated to have one cab for every 84 individuals. Yet I stood in the blowing snow on Thursday morning outside of the Bethel airport and could not for the life of me figure out how the Taxi system worked in Bethel. Despite my [...]
Unicorns.
By the time I get around to publishing this post, our humble Volunteer Blog should be filling with musings, photos, and excitement concerning Iditarod. While it’s true that this sled dog race has, for good reason, consumed our lives as we each play integral parts in reporting the race, I believe it is important to [...]
At Worst.
At my best, I am a strong-willed confident individual who has been trained to fight wildfires, hike through streams, crawl alone through culverts and pipes as I machete through vines and branches, and keep my cool working in some of the most crowded, hot, and rude places one can imagine. At my worst, I am [...]
A Cheechako’s Guide To Looking Cool.
Milan, New York, Paris, Nome – all capitals of fashion in the consumer driven world we live in. With Nome’s meager population soon about to burst with tourists and photographers from all over the world who will be attending Iditarod, I thought I’d use my blog power to prepare any of you who might not [...]
FUDSicles.
Taking a look outside of my bedroom window today, I was struck by two thoughts. Firstly, that at one point, I could see just a couple of rooftops followed by a beautiful green and red carpet of tundra before my eyes reached the stoic White Alice Towers atop Anvil Mountain. Now it takes a [...]
Hindsight
With the dawn of a new year upon us, I have been reflecting upon being halfway through my volunteer year here at KNOM. I came across this little diary entry recently and thought it summed up my arrival to rainy Nome, Alaska quite well! What an adventure it has been so far. I’ve grown so [...]
Whimsical Weather
I’m just going to come out and say it. Last week I launched a giant weather balloon miles into the sky and it was one of the coolest experiences of my life. There. Now that I have it off my chest, I can begin to go into a little more detail about the weather adventure [...]
Outsiders in Nome.
It was a strange feeling being in the shoes of the person who acts as a tour guide of Nome. After all, it wasn’t that long ago that former volunteer, Matt, was walking me down the streets of Nome showing me the Subway, post office, and Nome’s unofficial mascot, Velvet Eyes the pet reindeer. [...]
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