Dogsledding and postcards

[luzula]

So, in about a week I'm leaving for this year's dogsledding trip. This year, we'll be sledding for over a week in Sarek, a mountainous wilderness area where there mostly are no cabins, so we'll be sleeping in a tent. I'm so excited about this trip, and I am so scared that I'll get a cold or something before I go.

So, who wants postcards? Send me your address if you do! I know I have addresses for akamine_chan, nos4a2no9, hurry_sundown, and zabira. I have an old one for the_antichris, and I should have j_s_cavalcante's, because it was on the glove package, but alas, I have lost it.

Also, one of my housemates, who's an officer in the military, told me this cool story yesterday: apparenly Denmark needs to have people travelling all over Greenland in order to claim the territory as theirs. So there are people whose only job is to dogsled across Greenland, like, all the time! The cool thing about this is that they still use dogsleds instead of snowmobiles or something.

In unrelated news, I have a laptop for the first time in my life--the department bought it for me. I quite like it, except for how it's running Vista and apparently can't manage to copy files from my FAT32 external harddrive. WTF, Vista? I will install Linux as well. *sigh*

Also unrelated: I am rewatching Firefly. God, I love that show.

Comments

[china_shop]

So there are people whose only job is to dogsled across Greenland, like, all the time! The cool thing about this is that they still use dogsleds instead of snowmobiles or something.

That is so cool! :-)

Have a great trip. How long will you be away?

[luzula]

Thanks, I hope it'll be good! It'll be eight whole days of sledding, plus the days when we get there and leave. But the communications aren't very good, so I have to spend an extra night at a hostel on the way there.