A new month, a new title

Hooo, boy, I haven't written in a while. Halloween has come and gone, and all of a sudden it's November, there's snow on the ground, it's in the single-digits at night, and Thanksgiving is right around the corner.

Just to mix things up, I decided to go ahead and change the title of my blog, from "Travels in Anvil City" to "Finis Terrae." The former referred to the original name of Nome (at its founding in the last few years of the 19th century), while the latter, new name comes from the Latin phrase for "end of the world" or "end of the earth."

When I look out of our second-floor windows in the volunteer house, towards the Norton Sound and the Bering Sea, knowing that Siberian Russia and the Alaskan Arctic aren't far out there somewhere, it sometimes can feel that it really is the end of the world - not in a negative way, but rather just in a way that, from time to time, makes you lean back in your chair and say "Wow."

So thus the new title.

More soon, hopefully!