The Job Hunt Continues...

The weather is beautiful outside the walls of the library, but I find myself spending hours inside, poring over job opportunity after job opportunity. All I've landed to date is the job at Mt Rushmore Gold, which quickly faded as soon as the tourist season ended. I've applied at JCPenney and been interviewed for a holiday position, and they should be contacting me this week. However, the job with the USGS that I really hoped for has fallen through. I guess I will just have to keep looking!

In other news, Josh and I have been exploring the local mountain biking trails on "M" hill, and we have been enjoying the near 70 degree temperatures as we do so! Next time I will bring a camera so I can share some pictures - yesterday we watched a skilled biker jump off a rock that was about 10 feet higher than the landing on the most technical trail. It'll be quite some time before I work up the courage to do that!

Good times in Rapid City - but we sure miss our friends in Fairbanks! Life is certainly different here on the "Outside" as Alaskans prefer to label it.

From the ATCO trailers of Prudhoe Bay ...

As anyone who works the North Slope knows and understands, Prudhoe Bay is a place of dust, fog, and plentiful ATCO trailers. The camps are generally nice as long as your roommate lets you sleep, and you are almost guaranteed to gain weight with all the food you eat. Hooray for angel food cake!

Daily you will find us wandering with our GPS poles, dressed in chest waders, safety glasses, and a nice warm hat. On the good days we take the helicopter to the east, on the bad days we take the road to whatever streams we can access. Not bad for a three week field project, eh?

That being said, home again on Saturday, which will be good. Hopefully I can get in a few more good hikes or bike rides before it gets cold again and the leaves are gone.