First thing in the morning for Alaska and halibut and salmon fishing out of Valdez and then, later, a brief sojourn in Denali National Park. This will be the first time I’ve travelled without a computer in five years — honeymoon included. I get back in a week and I will then be going to Maine with my computer. But this means I will be out of contact with NRO completely for the first time since NRO became NRO. I’ll miss everybody, but since Kathryn’s been running the show for real for quite a while, I know things will be in good hands. If get a chance to drop a line I will, otherwise you’ll hear from me around the 16th. Feel free to send me email, but I won’t read it for at least a week, so please feel free to save the breaking news announcements and the like.

Keep hope alive.