The Yellowknife Inn

... br><br>The downtown area is very modern and the most expensive place to live is in Old Town where you could have a home on Ragged Ass Road. The views from Old Town are spectacular -- most of the buildings are built on the sides of rock and likely cost more than a couple million dollars to purchase.<br><br>The last picture I have shown is why we may be returning to Yellowknife -- Folk on the Rock is next weekend and hopefully we can get tickets for ...

... I tried to leave my two big suitcases and big green knapsack at the airport but with no luck. I asked the supervisor what would happen if I just "forgot" to pick them up and she said they would have to call the RCMP and the luggage would be confiscated. We looked at each other and shrugged and laughed and I went in search of a cart. There were no cabs waiting so I had to call one. It was the kind of place where ...

Keith packed up all his stuff in the morning like a maniac, and so we had to take a cab all the way to the airport, 30 km outside of town. We missed the shuttlebus *pout* We got to Yellowknife and it was boiling hot. I had told my Couchsurfing friend Phil the wrong arrival time, so he wasn't there waiting for us. We picked up our stuff and headed out. Fred Henne Park is a very easy walk from the airport, so we just did that. We set up our camp, changed into ...

... land of the midnight sun as otherwise it would have been a dark night. Day 3 we drove out to one more Waterfall site, And toured around the city, Being Sunday all bars in town closed early. Day 4 And just that fast we were on our way home! We stopped and spent the night in high level which despite having several Vegas themed hotels, had lil action going on Which lead to us calling it a early night. On a side note we ...

... with old friends of ours while in YK. Billy and Sandra Stirling owners of Overlander Sports were kind enough to offer a bed while we are here. Isold them lots of "stuff" over my years as a rep. They have a new store,an old grocery store in DT YK,rivals any store in the South. We're off to ski today and to take in the sights of YK. We can actually ski from our house across Back Bay &lt; 1km to the trails. Sunday is the start of the the Games and our jobs.

... like to stretch us as well as the audience. We were accompanied by a live orchestra, consisting of harps, violins, viola, clarinets and flutes with 9 musicians coming from Edmonton - mostly from the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, to add to our local musicians,. That was a real experience ...

... of Myles, the pilot in Blog 49 who mentioned that in Alaska, any public highway can be used as a landing strip, if the coast is clear. At the Ogilvie River, I was now well into the Ogilvie Mountains. That gave me a good feeling, for I was now driving through a mountain range that previously had not been on my radar screen. Not only was the range unknown, but the drive through it turned out to be a beautiful. Beautiful became spectacular at the Ogilvie ...

... Hence my own personal conviction that traveling is "History and Geography for Dummies". I guess that is why I like it so much. During my visit to Fort Simpson, the Papal Flats were being prepared for the Open Sky Festival the coming weekend (June 29 - July 1). This is an annual festival for the Deh Cho First Nation of the Western sub-arctic. This includes the First Nation communities of Fort Simpson, Fort Providence, Wrigley, Fort Liard, Hay ...

... i will purchase an SVU and travel across the US. i arrived in Timmins Ontario Feb 12 and visited my parents,funny how time makes you forget what it's like to stay at your parents house. i'm off to Toronto on Feb 15 departing for Namibia on the 19th. while in Toronto a bunch of my geek internet freinds are meeting up Saturday night for beers and to shoot pool. it ...

... off the beach was forward. The plane wasn't completely parallel with the shore, and we helped Chuck do everything possible to keep the plane from twisting any more. When the plane started to move around too much and the right float started bashing into unseen rocks below, Chuck decided to sink that float to anchor the boat and minimize damage. While our situation wasn't great, we weren't really too concerned about hanging out an extra night. Thankfully we over-packed ...