I just got back to Seattle last night and am already back at work catching up. BUT I MISS ANCHORAGE. I want to go back. So sad it had to end. Truly.

But the remark I wanted to make to you, Dan, is that meeting people was so much more fun having already chatted and caught up online. I loved it.

Just anecdotally, Sherry handed me a hand-out she’d saved all this time from the 10-year reunion. It was about 10 or 15 pages long with short listings for each person with their status and history. They were so brief and factual, you could hardly connect the person to the words. Some of them were even in the 3rd person (“John X has married a native Alaskan and is pleased to have been recently promoted to Associate Bank Manager…”)- !!

Great to have the facts, but when you think of the photo-sharing, conversational round-robin environment 43 Things created for us, you couldn’t imagine a starker contrast. As a result, soooo many bonds were already in place before anyone actually stepped off the airplane. That made a huge difference!

Hugs,

T