coming up on Venetie

When a plane lands in a small village it makes a low circle over downtown before landing, in this way the people are alerted to its arrival and will send out a vehicle to pick up the passengers. in Venetie we were met by a woman in her truck and paid her ten dollars for a ride into "town." Gas in Venetie is going for 5 dollars a gallon these days. When we were there they were on the last day of electricity rationing, as the town would receive a fuel delivery the next day, with which they could run their generator. So the electricity was being shut off for the whole town at 8pm. The cabins we flew over were pretty good size, and spread out a bit...mostly newer looking than those in Fort Yukon...at least to me.

Venetie lies on the Chandalar river, at the foot of the Brooks Range. I got to see mountains in the distance, a sight for sore eyes.