Blue Raven Yellowknife

... next. <br><br>Dan reminds me that we now know how many types of gum Jarod does not like as a result of trying to buy him some at the last minute for the flight. We also know how many hats Jessica does not like as a result of trying to find one of Dan&#8217;s for her to wear on this trip (she chose Saskatchewan Roughriders &#8211; nach!). And the Guigon luck holds true for Dan, but in minor ways, as someone&#8217;s jacket fell out of the overhead compartment onto his head and ...

... stayin' in Edmonton that night and just flying home the next day. Toooooo much airport time! I decided to go to Canadian North and ask, and low and behold, they upped their airplane to a bigger plane, so it opened up 24 more seats. WE GOT ON!!!! (Left at 7:20 like our original) - We made it home... with... TWO missing pieces of luggage!! Our broken stroller is apparently still sitting in Miami. Our big huge bag that got lost on the way down, is now lost again. Did we ...

... the trees either side of the road. The only wildlife we saw was two Bison sat on the side of the road. The road was busier than I had expected with a number of logging trucks and Oil and Gas workers heading out to their relevant plants, though this was far fewer than on the Alaska Highway. The road is paved until the border with the Northwest Territories, were there is a rather small and unimpressive sign marking the border ...

... of blue, yellow, and tartan mauve. After the sun went down below the eastern horizon after 10pm, the north still held onto a deep sunshine orange in the north, well past 11pm. There is so much to see here. I want to go to the old town, the library, we've heard the territorial legislature is cool, and we MUST swim in a NWT lake no matter how cold!!

... and the parade of athletes into the Multiplex. In a time honoured tradition, lots of the athletes switched team jackets and went home with some other teams uniform. My pick would have been the Greenland jacket. Sunday: We went for a drive out onto the winter road on Great Slave Lake and went about 30 km out of town. It was really weird driving on ice on a huge lake that you can't ...

... Canadian wildlife and they were thrilled. I was equally excited to have had the opportunity to catch both of their AMAZING evening performances...and then to top it off to be able to hang with them all for a day and yap in Spanish, something I don't get to do a lot of up here in the middle of nowhere. It brought back many fond memories of my last adventure back to my Latin-American roots this past year.

... to Inuvik. The weather cannot be taken lightly, as I found out later that a trucker had lost his life in the latest snow fall. Accidents are common on this road, often with fatal consequences. The driving is treacherous due to the road conditions and the passage of the occasional semi-trailer truck cruising between Inuvik and the south. Like the Dalton Highway in Alaska, the Dempster is the domain of the truckers and the rest are just trespassers, in a ...

... question "What do you like about living in Fort Simpson?" to a lady walking her dog. Her answer touched on: her love of the North, the lack of traffic, her feeling of safety here, the fact that everyone knows each other, and the willingness of people to help each other, even when traveling through other communities. In case of emergency, she did have a satellite phone which is the only assured calling service as one travels many of these ...

... m'a fait rater ma connexion à Calgary que Steph lui a réussi à prendre de justesse ... J'ai ensuite passé une heure avec un adorable agente à Calgary pour récupérer cette erreur des Montréalaises qui auraient en fait, paraît-il, totalement pu m'éviter ça (ça a été long du fait du pass au sein duquel on ne peut rien annuler sans encourir des frais et qui est nouveau donc les agents savent pas trop encore comment le gérer)... Bref, je me ...

... t very well put on the outside of the envelope ROLLING STONES TICKETS INSIDE! So I wonder how many actually do what I nearly did... but the lesser of 2 evils is the plain envelope I think. Going for my 2nd last shot today for Japanese Encephalitis and need to pick up malaria pills. Also am working on obtaining a Visa in NYC for Russia as I will be in the vicinty, in Estonia. So I am really looking forward to that part of the adventure, particularly seeing the world famous Hermitage.