If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Hatchers Pass (Willow side)

Coming around the pass

Selfie with Hatchers in the background

Welcome back to my reality. Nome! It was a good week in Anchorage, did a little hot yoga, sat around in a tub tub for awhile, crashed a wedding (It was just like any other outdoor wedding! Just happened to have the Chugach mountain range as its backdrop), and took a road trip up over Hatchers Pass. T and I stopped at the "worlds BEST ice cream" on our little road trip... I'm not gonna lie.. def NOT the best. God I miss being able to just hop in the car and just leaving. Going away, taking in sights and sounds of new places, or even just different places.  I reminisce about all the drives back in Ohio to the barn and back, or when I would drive to Estes Park when I was in Boulder just to get away from normal.  You don't realize how much you miss these little things until it's not really possible to do it whenever you wish.  Granted I can take my Dirtrude out and just haul-ass down the beach... but man it's not supposed to stop raining here until maybe Tuesday... and of course I will be working. Ha! Nomed.

Stormy beach days

I just had three days of work and now I am hanging out on the couch trying to fend off some illness that some sick individual decided to share with me. GROSS.

It's looking like I will be heading to Anchorage for training for a month at the end of August.  I will be starting nights there and continue with night shift when I get back to Nome sometime at the end of September.   I am pretty excited about going to nights, different vibe, different speed, different clientele. Hopefully I won't have to see all the people that just waste away taxpayers dollars by coming to the ER for things like "my child has had a cough for the last 6 hours" or "I need an STD check".... uuuggggghhhhhh enough to drive you CRAZY!   Instead I will probably end up babysitting drunk people... Guess I'm just picking my poison.

So 4 months into my 24 month stint, 30 posts, and roughly 2500 views from people all over the country and the world; this blogging stuff isn't so bad.

Not a whole lot more to say. Just ready for some more tea and couch time (read as nap time). Maybe some wine time too. Cheers to health!

Here are a few random pictures that I don't know where to put:

If you look close enough that sign says: USSR Big Diomede Way to keep things current Nome... 

A horrible picture of my AMAZING print that I picked up in Chitina, AK during my last road trip

Clouds and sunshine from the plane back to Nome

Gnome from Nome! Hand carved walrus ivory statue
made for me. I asked for a garden gnome with an
Eskimo face and a harpoon :)

So long lovelies!