Warren Palfry and Rick Larson, are thoughts and prayers are with you.

Tim is three miles out of Shaktoolik. The next leg (from Shaktoolik to Koyuk) in terms of terrain, is something better left un-thinked, at least by me. Click on the following link if you'd like an official description: http://www.iditarod.com/checkpoints/checkpoint21.html . Needless to say, I will be worried sick until I see his icon at the next checkpoint. Tim is one determined man at this point, with 229 miles left of what some are describing as the most difficult Iditarod to date. His emails from the Unalakleet checkpoint were riddled with mistakes and convoluted, God bless him, but absolutely no indication of jumping ship, so we will see him Sunday night or Monday morning in Nome with a table full of pancakes, scotch and crab legs and a bubble bath; everything he loves. The dogs? Fresh straw, sausages, movies, sleep number beds, deep ear scratches and belly rubs until they're sick of us.

Colleen and I fly to Nome today so we've got to run. I'll try to write more later and hope we have internet capabilities in the hotel lobby at the Golden Nugget