Safely home

I got in this evening from Alaska, basking in the local temperature of 67° - a pleasant change from the 28° at Anchorage airport last night! Everyone else here is shivering and complaining that it's a cold snap, compared to our normal spring temperatures of high 70's to low 80's, but believe me, after snow and ice, it's positively balmy!

I had a great time in the frozen North. Alaskan people are absolutely charming, in my limited experience of them - a real frontier society, with a great deal of emphasis on self-reliance, get-up-and-go determination, and none (at least none that I saw) of the reliance on the 'welfare State' that seems to plague those States further South. I enjoyed my stay, and look forward to returning there sometime soon.

Blogging will get back to normal over the next couple of days.

Peter