 We're trekking paths Habiba and Alex and for the last few weeks we have been calling Alaska home working from our little tiny airbnb during the week and hitting the hiking trails during the weekends exploring the last frontier challenging ourselves learning and appreciating the opportunity to escape the heat of the desert. Getting here was an adventure of its own. The state of Alaska requires all people entering Alaska from another state or country to a complete a traveler declaration form and b. arrive with proof of a qualifying negative COVID-19 test. So we took our first COVID test in Arizona and this is how it went. We are right outside of the doctor's office here waiting for our tele-visit charge so that they can you know we talk to the doctor and they will basically send someone out to get the swabs. Yeah so we're getting tested for COVID. Is there an expected timeline? The Alaska wanted us to have these done within 72 hours of arrival. We're actually using it's a little bit thicker but like I said it doesn't go super far back the smaller one is the one that goes really really fast but this one's just the inside of your so I am gonna use your extra hand for me if you can just hold that for me try not to spill it. It's not super comfortable but thank you. We got to the airport we had to fail in a traveler declaration form with our personal information time of entrance duration of our stay emergency contact information symptoms if we are experiencing any etc etc and then checked in with the airport staff to prove that we had pending test results and learn about what was expected from us as travelers. So just before we get to the baggage claim here there is a line to check people make sure that they either took a test they have results don't have results if you don't have your result they will walk you through the next steps and so on so we already checked online they do have answers to whatever questions they need to know from us then we will go and see. A few days later we got a call from Arizona to learn that a long story short they lost our test results back in Arizona and so they let us know today and we're already here in Alaska and we're back to the airport because it's the one place where you can do the test for free and so we're going to get tested again and see how that goes hopefully they don't lose them this time. So it turns out we're only gonna have to do one more test maybe I don't know. Pass that back I'll go ahead and give this to you and you're gonna peel it open from that end as if you're opening a banding there you go. Peel it open all the way until you can get to the top make sure that it comes down now so a swab goes the white tip goes all the way up the nose you touch your head back a little bit it helps and then you go all the way up until you feel like you're ready to tear it's gonna go a little bit further back and then you're going to swab around for five seconds each side five four three two and one okay and other side okay next side okay you got to bring it out and put it up the other side oh yep I thought you meant in front and back too don't worry oh yeah a little bit further back okay and smile for the camera baby four three two and one okay and you're good so swab tip right into there there you go good aim baby and this time it's a self-administered test yep doing the swab ourselves not that much fun and the results turned out to be negative for both of us so yay to that a different because the other one was like a regular q-tip I think you went all the way up you can see like my eyes right it's like I'm punched in the face by me all right so that's done now that we cleared out the requirements to be here in the beautiful state of Alaska we will get rolling so stay tuned for a new adventure with trekking cows Habiba and Alex