Although my first trip to Alaska was the usual cruise ship/overland package, it gave me a good glimpse of the vast country and diverse geography that Alaska provides its’ suitors

I found that each trip would lead into the next until I had been exposed to the southeast coast by ship, the interior by dog sled, the arctic by airplane and the Aleutian Islands via the Alaska Marine Highway system and finally the Chilkoot Pass by the same mode of transportation as the original gold prospectors-- on foot.

Until a few years ago my travels were curtailed by a thriving large animal (mostly equine) veterinary practice that consumed every waking and some middle of the night hours.

After selling my practice in 2006 I started to travel in earnest and was able to visit Costa Rica, the Canadian Arctic, and set sail on an around the world trip that lasted for 5 months aboard a working freighter that circumnavigated the globe.

I see the serum run as an exceptional opportunity to continue my education through exposure to and hopefully friendships made with the native people of Alaska while visiting in their villages. This in conjunction with making the historic trip memorializing the brave men and dogs that risked their lives to deliver Diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925 will be my trip of a lifetime.