Johnson&Johnson

Greetings from Alaska! Howard and I will be in Ketchikan, Alaska until June 6 of this year. He has resigned from his job in Rockingham, NC and is now doing Locum Tenens work. He will be going to different locations filling in as their doctor. In between assignments he will be "in retirement".

This is my first attempt at "blogging" so we will see if it works. I will try to post pictures of where we are, sharing our experience with you.

We flew into the Ketchikan airport on Sunday evening (3/8/09) around 8:30 p.m. Alaska time (3 hrs difference from Central, 4 hrs difference Eastern). The airport is across the passageway from the town, and we had to take a ferry across. Being dark, we did not see much of the town.

We were given a van used by the clinic to use as our transportation. Needless to say, it has seen better days. But, hey, it gets us around.

The living arrangement is very nice. It is one bedroom, 1 bath, but quite spacious. We have a nice big window in the eating area that looks out over the passageway to the mountains.

Monday morning Howard went to the clinic for orientation and after a little confusion on the part of the clinic/hospital, he came home to wait until the person in charge of the orientation came in to work. After two days of "orientation" we finally started seeing patients on Wednesday afternoon.

That was also the day we got snow -- all day. Being located on a steep hill, I was hesitant to drive, but we made it. And today, Thursday, the snow is all gone -- it is raining with a temperature of 43 degrees. And very windy.

Well, I'm now going to try to add pictures but not being computer savy, who knows what will happen!