The Daily School Bus: they blow their horns

Whenever they pull up to a stop to pick up students, school buses in Barrow blow their horns. The sound reminds me a bit of the complaint of an unhappy cow, but louder and with a bit of hoarseness in the throat. On school mornings, these honks are heard repeatedly throughout Barrow.

A pretty decent little wind blows this morning. A fine, light, snow flies and swirls its way down the roads. Excluding wind chill, it is warm. Generally speaking, it does not snow when it is cold. It has to get warm before it can snow.

Text added at 9:16 AM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 55 and counting.

The Daily School Bus: the forecast storm has arrived

As Arctic storms go it is not terribly fierce, not nearly so bad as the one I just missed over the weekend, but it is a bit blizzardy and it could get worse. It is expected to last for a couple of days.

Text added at 8:56 AM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 54 and counting.

The Daily School Bus: I see only one today -A storm might be coming but that's not why

A little bit of snow was flying around and I heard there was a storm coming. It looked and felt like it could happen, but so far it hasn't got here yet. This was the only school bus I saw on the road – about 3 PM. It turned out today was teacher in-service day and so the students had all gone home early. I'm not sure why this one was out when the others weren't, but it was.

Text added at 5:37 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 53 and counting.

The Daily School Bus: Parked outside the bus barn across the street from Barrow High School

...at 10:10 AM this morning.

I saw my first school bus as I walked to breakfast this morning little bit after 7:30, but my iPhone was in my pocket. By the time I could get it out and activate the camera the bus had turned the corner before it ever even reached me. Buses would have been rolling regularly for a while after that, but I was tied up getting situated and didn't see any of them.

Don't worry. There will be plenty more buses for me to snap in Barrow. 

Text added at 10:59 AM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 52 and counting.

Logbook, Wasilla to Barrow, entry 1: On the drive to Ted Stevens International Airport, I see The Daily School Bus

The original text for this has disappeared. Oh well. The essence was that I left Wasilla about 2:35 hours before I was scheduled to depart Ted Stevens International Airport for Barrow. It usually takes close to one hour to reach the airport from our house, but the highway was so slick and scary that it took an hour and 40 to 45 minutes. This put me at the airport in the danger zone where one can miss their flight. But I got on.

I Instagrammed this on the plane and tried to post the picture with a "More Later" title just as they made us turn our phones off. I had hoped the picture would post, but it didn't until after I landed in Barrow and entered a wi-fi environment.

Text added at 8:55 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 51 and counting.