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| Thursday, July 3 — International Date Line / Nome, Alaska, USA / Lethbridge, Canada
Because we crossed the International Date Line we enjoyed Thursday, July 3 twice. On the first after our disembarkation briefing we heard Bruce’s lecture The Discovery of Time. We had brunch in the late morning then discovered our noon was suddenly 3 p.m. and time for Tim's talk on post-Stalinist Russia. After some packing it was time for the Captain’s farewell cocktail party and dinner. The sturdy ship had served us well We arrived in Nome the next morning and disembarked after breakfast for a tour of Nome with its rough-and-rowdy history of the exciting Gold Rush years of 1899–1900. Nome is also the finish point of the annual 1,049 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race from Anchorage. Because of a delay on the incoming flight we had an extended tour giving us a chance to check out the countryside, visit the park and museum as well as pan for gold. Yet, probably, the image that will remain the longest was seeing a man hauling not his dog in the back of his pickup but his pet reindeer. Finally our journey was almost over and it was on to the airport for our flight to Anchorage and our flight to Seattle and home. |
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