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A call for a mushers' retirement home

Julia Bayly, a recreational musher of a certain age and a photographer for the Bangor Daily News in Maine, has been dreaming of a retirement home for mushers and a few of their favorite dogs.

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Think of it -- a fully staffed facility with plenty of room for old dog drivers and their dogs. Flat, gentle, straight trails suitable for walking or -- for the more adventurous - hitching up one or two dogs to the wheelchair for a spin around the compound.

Seating for two- and four-footed residents in the dining hall, where the word "mush" will refer not just to what we do but what we eat.

Oh, and if the architects of this future mushing Valhalla are reading this, can you please locate it in a somewhat temperate climate?

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