We are in La Pesse a small village in the Jura Mountains and are staying with our Friends Muriel and Daniel and Leo Mellina.

Ken Anderson and his wife Gwen Holdman are with us ! the 9 of us total are invading the little village and we are showing making discover Ken the great Cheese of France !! the Wine testing is goind well too.....

Ken realize finally what real food is and really love the TARTTIFETTE !!!! he even eats it for breakfast !!!!

We are training the dogs on very nice trails every day.

Daniel made us the sled from ANTIPODE and Ken bought one and loves it now Gwen wants one now too

Our team !!

from left to right:

Aurelie, Jacques, Michael and Sylvain

Wednesday, January 04, 2006 12:35:16 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)     

   We arrived in Frankfurt  Dec 31st at 6 am.

Interesting landing due to freezing rain and snow on the airport ground.

the 56 dogs arrived in great shape after doing the vet examination and custom e drove to La Pesse France and arrived there at about 10pm.

My friend Pascale (in the middle) and my two handlers that stayed home to take care and train the dogs...

in the Luftzanza warehouse in Frankfurt !!

Saturday, December 31, 2005 12:29:54 AM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)     

In 17 days the dogs will fly to Europe !

We will travel with Luftanza cargo and land in Germany trhen drive to the Jura Mountain to meet our friends Muriel and Daniel whom we will stay with until the start of the race.

Daniel is the one who build our racing sleds, his compagny name is Antipode (used to be Extrapole)

28 dogs will be going to France...

The link to follow the race is http://www.grandeodyssee.com

Tuesday, December 13, 2005 7:06:07 PM (Alaskan Standard Time, UTC-09:00)