Capital Suites Yellowknife

... neighbor nudged at the perfect moment for him to spill his noodles marinara onto his lap. Jessica continues to remind me that nothing has happened to me yet. I will emphasize YET! I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s coming. <br><br>Adelle J<br><br>WELL&#8230; Lets just say that scissors and airports don&#8217;t mix&#8230; I forgot to take my scissors out of my pencil bag before putting it into my carry on. So I put my bag on the belt thingy in security, and when I got through the ...

... that it's a Hockey Canada Hockey bag? Not small people... not small. Thankfully Dennis mustered through all of our flight changes and was a GREAT help to get us home. We're home, minus 2 pieces of luggage, but we're home! Not so major! (*side note: this showed up 2 days later) There is actually more detail, with a few more things, but ta daaaaaa... we're home! For our own future reference and for anyone that maybe doing a similar trip, here's a quick list of things we'd ...

... Once in the Northwest Territories the road becomes Highway 7 (The Laird Trail). The scenery on this road is more of the same, but the road becomes allot more challenging due to the bumps, soft spots and slick areas of the highway. The gravel section of the highway continues for 219km until you reach the junction with the Mackenzie Highway (Highway 1). At this point we were grateful of the paved surface that the Mackenzie ...

... alone in the woods, and terrified of bears jumping out from around the corners, I almost ran all the way back. He wasn't there, so waited in the parking lot on the picnic table for him to come back. Still no Keith. OK, I have to pee, so I went to the bathroom, and then in a couple minutes I hear the car door open. I left my stuff on top of the roof, so I assumed he'd figure I was close by. Nope. Keith just starts ...

... the other side. They plow the road approx 150' wide so they can drive ore trucks and transports on it. The road had a speed limit of 40kph but most folks drive around 60. The speed limit is to keep the ice intact. If you drive too fast, there is a wave or wake created by your car and when you get close to shore the ice could break. Although I doubt 6' of ice breaks up all that easily ...

So after spending a few days in the big city of Edmonton, on Sat. Sept. 30 I had to leave on the fateful journey back to the North to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Since travel from Edmonton to Yellowknife is expensive ($700-800 return on a 'seat sale') I had an Aeroplan ticket which routed me leaving at 10 a.m. from Edmonton-Calgary then Calgary - Yellowknife! For those not familiar with Canadian geography, that's going south in order to go north ...

... of speaking. The truck traffic is not heavy, but therein lays the danger. Most of the time there is no traffic at all, so there is a tendency to be lulled into a state of complacency. This can have dire consequences especially when coming around blind curves just at the moment that a semi is coming in the opposite direction. Moving over into the loose gravel at the side of the road can induce a state akin to hydroplaning. Given that the shoulders of the ...

... roads. On the shores of the Mackenzie River I found the air terminal for South Nahanni Airways. Here I had my first sighting of the legendary DHC-6 Twin Otter. This multi-purpose (land, water, snow) STOL (short lake off and landing) aircraft was developed by de Havilland Canada in the 1960's. The company has passed into the history books and the production of the aircraft stopped in 1988. Recently, I was happy to read about the rebirth ...

... retrouvée à devoir prendre un vol Calgary-Edmonton (déjà en retard d'1h à cause du temps dans les Prairie) puis Edmonton-Yellowknife qui s'est avéré en retard de 4 heures (du fait d'un problème de pare-brise qui les a fait chercher un autre avion ailleurs... et puis, (histoire de bien éprouver ma patience remarquable ce jour-là, faut quand même l'avouer) un manque de personnel à minuit et quelque à Edmonton pour charger les bagages dans ...

... to High Level (7 hrs away) and then sleep in the vehicle for the night, but the "Land of the Midnight Sun" changed that a little. When we got to High Level, at midnight, it was actually still pretty light so we decided to continue driving ...