Quote Originally Posted by stickman View Post
Yes Verity, there are a lot of good memories from long ago. I see you are in Alaska. The only time I was there was in February years ago. I was working in Mexico, temperature was in the 80s. I finished the job I was working on and called my boss. His reply was, Oh good! I have another job for you. Asked where. Prudhoe Bay. Flew back to Raleigh dumped the summer clothes out of my suitcase and filled it up with winter clothes. Caught the next flight to Anchorage. Spent the night, next day got a flight to Deadhorse. It was -40. My body wasn’t ready for that. I remember the sun had just started to come back. At noon it was two fingers above the horizon.
That sounds like quite the experience. If you ever contemplate venturing north again you might try to time your visit for the Highland Games at the summer solstice.

I call myself a generational expat; have lived on every continent except Antarctica. But I've been here rather more than 20 years and like it very much.