“Dream big. Dare to fail.” Norman Vaughan, Polar explorer- Led multiple commemorative Serum Run Expeditions in the late 20th century. We recently received this question on our social media account. “After all,” one might argue “The average Iditarod team does 1,000 miles in 14 days and you are only traveling 750.” We expect our expedition to take 18 days at least. While the answer to why seems obvious to us, we realize that others who are unacquainted with expedition travel may have the same question, so we will take a moment to answer it here. First we will compare