The Trip Up
Well, the trip up to Fairbanks, Alaska was… looooooong! I met up with the other programmer in training in Atlanta so I at least had some good geek company while hopping different flights. I even met some people in one flight that lived in Alaska and they had some good suggestions and offered some rather, ummm, interesting conversation. Apparently the retail store chains of the world are spying on us and attempting to usurp our human rights…. ok.
In the stops in Anchorage and Fairbanks the planes didn’t actually pull up to the terminal. They just got close and then lowered down the portable stairs. We had to walk to and from the plane outside. It wasn’t a large distance but it was first taste of the cold weather. All in all I thought, that’s not so bad. The air was pretty dry compared with Florida and it wasn’t cutting me through to the bone. We met up with our contact in Fairbanks at 1:55 AM (yes, it was extremely nice of him to come pick us up at that hour) and had our rental vehicle warmed and ready to go. My colleague had driven in the snow before so I let him have the honors.
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