What a day !! What a week +!! To see the finish on live cameras to having live play by play. This Forum has been the best. I appreciate all the good things everyone has added to the discussion over the last few days. Having followed this race for a lot of years, I can truely say this year was special for a lot of reasons, the closeness of the competitors throughout the race, the use of technology to improve the armchair experience but most of all the great folks who day in day out sit in front of screens throughout the world to cheer on 80 plus dogsled teams travel over 1000 miles through a land way up north. Heidi a special thank you to you for inviting me to join the group here on this forum. I can't thank you enough, I would have stayed over at Iditarod.com if not for your invite. John - you are doing for students what I wished more people would do - allowing students to use the technology that exists to further education. I would love to send some of our number one export to your students (cheese), but need to know where and how much.
I also need to thank my wife who puts up with my late hours and endless talking about the events and the people I meet through this forum. She did get a kick out of the Trail Breaker saga. That was so good in those hours when the action was a little light. Dilli and Tangles what imaginations you have!!
Good Night and I will be back tomorrow for a while to catch up on the news of the day but there are a number of real life things that must be dealt with in the coming days like doing the taxes that won't wait any longer.
Good Night
Biggie