Alaskan Update from Roger

Roger sends his greetings through his wife Chris. Roger shares from the Samaritan's Purse base camp in Soldotna: It's 6 a.m. and still dark but the stars are out. There's a group of 8 guys here from North Carolina. It's Monday morning (Aug. 31) and breakfast is at 7 and at 8:30. We will go to the airport hangar which is 3/4 mile away. Samaritan's Purse has two hangars and five planes. Our flight to Eagle will take us about three hours, with a stop in Anchorage (25 minutes away) to refuel the planes. The log homes are all built and we will be building kitchen cabinets, etc. Samaritan's Purse hopes to be done in Eagle by the 15th of September. They have to bring out their truck, etc. by road and the road in and out of Eagle closes by the 1st of October or sooner depending on when it snows. 

There's a volcano here near base camp that is letting off some steam. Dennis says base camp reminds him of what it was like in the army. There's about eight tent-like structures with four beds in each one, a tent with showers and washrooms, and a tent as a kitchen/dining area. Samaritan's Purse is in the finishing phases of building a new dining/kitchen, a new shower house, and four new log bunkhouses. I visited with a couple from the Carolinas last night that moved up here two years ago to work with Samaritan's Purse. He's the airplane mechanic and she does the cooking at base camp. They said it has been an unusually warm summer. Last summer they only had three days above 70 degrees and cloudy, rainy weather.