Miles travelled: 0
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
Hello all,
Sorry not to have kept you up-to-date with our summer - time and internet have been sparse. Ty and I went out at the week end on a hiking and packrafting trip with my friend Lily and our friends Ed and Anne, who we met at the white water course later summer. Ed is now renting out packrafts in Fairbanks, and both are SUPER fit! (Anne is training for an ultra marathon and ran 35 miles the previous w/e, ug!!) Suffice to say that I was the slowest on the trip, and found it a good challenge to keep up the pace - we managed 14 miles hiking on Saturday and completed the rest of the hike and a good float the next day, making about 38 miles in all! Not bad for 2 days. We were back in Denali National Park and the scenery was beautiful. Not too much bush-wacking either.
Ty and I had a fantastic time on the Amazon-PIRE field course in Brazil last month - posts and photos on this coming soon I promise! We met some amazing people, who we very much hope to keep in contact with as friends and researchers. It was a great introduction to the options available for graduate research and to the Amazon in particular.
Over the last couple of days Ty and I have been packing up all our worldy possessions. We just managed to stuff everything into the Subaru and now we are about to set out on our 3,500 mile journey to Tucson, Arizona, for the start of graduate school! First stop will be Liard Hotsprings in British Columbia, Canada. It's already 8.20pm and we haven't left Fairbanks, so we probably won't make the border tonight. We hope to get as fair as Tok.
I can't guarantee how much internet access we'll have on the way down, but we'll do our best to keep you updated!
Marielle.
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