photo: while the miles quickly add up into thousands and the map portrays a mostly calculable and finite distance, despite clocks defining and insisting upon a precise rule which brackets the journey, the impossibility of parallel comparison or quantitative measurement between a street – pick one in, say, Chicago – and the entire decade of Alaska immersion preceding any departures at all to the lower-48, suddenly everything is of jaw dropping interest. Every. Thing. Like this filters-only photo from somewhere along the 3-day trek out of the deep freeze in early 2026.