How did we get here?

 Good question.  Well, it all started almost a year ago.  Gloria was at a National Ski Patrol clinic and met a fellow patroller who is a dentist.  In conversation, Gloria discovered that she routinely went to Kotzebue Alaska as a locum to do dentistry.  So, after a 10-month Department of Indian Affairs paperwork journey with numerous staff changes in Kotzebue and Covid, just for good measure, we finally got a thumbs up to fly up to this part of the world just north of the Arctic Circle.

Dentistry is pretty similar to what Gloria and I have been doing in service and mission work over the years.  Differences?  It's colder, no scuba diving but the Fed's pay us.  Tradeoff.  We fly out of Sacramento Saturday, April 24 with a layover in Anchorage arriving Sunday afternoon on the one daily flight Alaska Airlines flies into Kotzebue.

That's Russia to the left of Kotzebue

So, typically for these blogs, I tried to post daily.  We do know that the first two days are orientation in Kotzebue, then a bush flight out to a small, remote clinic for our assignment.  I hope to post again Sunday night.