THE PLANE, THE PLANE !!!!

THE STORE HAS FOOD!!!!!
Many have asked, do you have a store? Why yes we do, it is the Teller Native Store. It is hard to describe. Not like a Quik Trip or 7-11. It is .... a sometimes it has it store and sometimes it doesn't have it.

With the blizzard, there have been planes backed up waiting to delivery to the store. The blizzard is finally over, for now, and the landing strip has been flattened (it is snow that has melted a bit and graded to a nice flat surface) and the Bush pilots can now land the plane. I will have to post a pix of the air strip (not airport) another time. It is too far for me to walk to get a pix.

In the meantime, here are the pictures that many have been waiting for. The store front, complete with a ramp for the handicapped. By the way, that is the ramp that I caught my yak trax in and fell flat. My groceries flew across the ice and I couldn't get up. My yak trax (gives you traction) was caught in the grate that gives you traction. So in essence, I had fallen and I cant get up. I managed to just take off the yak trax and leave it in the grate. Then a man came out of the store, walked right past me, got on his four wheeler....2 feet from me. Before he started it I asked him if he could kindly help me up. Now he is about half my size. I asked him if he knows about leverage. He said yes, but he lied. He got behind me and sort of lifted me up. And no, I wasn't embarrassed, I was happy to be upright.

This store was EMPTY until a couple days ago, I mean EMPTY. I heard a rumor that they had "stuff" delivered" so I took a shot, went to the post office then to the store. OMG Not only was there some food, there was..... drum roll.....DIET COKE! And I didn't have the toboggan. I am heading that way again today, WITH the toboggan and hope there is some left.

You have to understand that soda pop, coke, pepsi, mountain dew, anything along those lines are literally like cigarettes in prison. You drink one, you pay it back, you can trade it, resell it, you have to hide it. NEVER SHOW HOW MUCH YOU HAVE, EVER. It is the most important average man's commodity here in Alaska, in the Bush, on the Tundra, on a spit, in the Village of Teller.






There is even a good junk aisle, like, Sponge Bob toys, Hot Wheels, Crayons, gloves, hats, masking tape, etc. Oh, yeah, and the frozen foods are in big chest freezers. You know, like the ones at home. I was going to take a picture of the one that has musk ox or reindeer meat, that kind of thing, but all that was gone. Either they sold it or they gave it to the dog guy.
Hi Ho Hi Ho, off to school, post office and store I go.