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An intimate group of six travelers had just set foot into a world would be doing in Anchorage instead, I quickly learned that
very different from the Southern California lifestyle to which what she would be doing in April was the same thing she did
we were accustomed, and that was precisely the point. I had year-round: running her dogs.
billed the trip as an Iditarod Adventure by the Book™, a unique
offering by the company I founded in 2011 to bring literature to Like her four-footed friends, Debbie is compact, intelligent,
life in multi-sensorial ways. And over the next week, we would strong, high-energy, and charismatic. Her husband, Mark, a
definitely test our senses. successful communications attorney, possesses a beguil-
ing sense of humor, along with an astounding knowledge
After a visit to San Diego only a year earlier, author and ac- of Alaskan history and culture. Between the two, along with
complished Iditarod veteran Debbie Moderow (Fast Into the assistance from seasonal dog handlers, they manage a com-
Night, 2016) couldn’t quite believe I was serving her lemonade plex lifestyle that logistically would be a challenge for even a
by the swimming pool in April. When I inquired as to what she compulsive organizer like me.

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