Thanks, Karen, for being a Real Person.
I've been a fan for a long time, even got to chat with you briefly in New Hampshire where you autographed a copy of Pretty Sled Dogs for me. I'm just a little OLD rec musher with five dogs in my kennel--which kennel happens to be the couch and a chair at the moment.
My aspirations go no further than the local trail systems, but thanks to you and others like you, those trails ARE the Iditarod Trail for me. My dogs have enriched my life beyond measure. Your adventures and tails from the trails enrich it as well. Next year, when you're again out on some lonesome, cold, and windswept expanse, listen carefully and you'll hear me and so many others calling your dogs up the trail to Nome. God bless.