You thought that Nome was rural....off to Whales. If you look at the picture in the last post, Whales is located about 60 miles from Russia. It is a town of only about 120 people. In the early 1900's it was one of the largest villages in the area. However, after the influenza epidemic and a diphtheria epidemic...we are down to few people. Most people in this town are related. Most have children by 18...if not a few. The village is dry so there is no "legal" alcohol, however many will import it which sometimes get them thrown in jail. I flew in on a foggy day, which isn't uncommon. I'm thankful to see that they have lots of instrumentation so we didn't fly into a mountain or the ocean. When we landed there was one of the health aides to pick me up on the ATV.
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