Travel

• Jungle memories

  It's been a long time since I travelled.  Really travelled. Flights out of here are expensive, and Leah has a strong fear of flying. But this story harkens back to a trip to the Ecuadorian Amazon. Most people think of the jungle as impenetrable. A tangle of growth, vines, thick with green.That’s only the edges,

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• Pins on a map

  This afternoon, as I walked from the plane to terminal in Iqaluit I looked back to a beautiful slim crescent moon, followed in the sky by Venus and Jupiter. As the sky has deepened tonight I can't seem to keep my eyes from drifting up to them. It is a nice way to (almost) end

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• Hello, is it me you’re looking for?

  I caught a glimpse of the fireworks from Winterfest the other the day. We had stumbled into a Formula Taxi race somehow, and were speeding through the city. The last time I'd been going that fast in a city was during a high speed chase through the streets of Saskatoon.  But as we approached downtown

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• Away

  So I saw the Sun yesterday, high in the sky above Iqaluit. We’re south, in Ottawa, which is why I get to see it before the first week of February. This marks the first time in a number of years that I’ll not be in Arctic Bay for the return of the Sun, and it

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• Can I have my milkrun back?

  So the milkrun from Baker Lake that I anticipated didn't come about as planned. Now normally that would be a good thing, but at the end of the day I spent more time travelling then if the original flights had fallen in to place. In order to escape traveling in the arctic with your sanity

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• Milk and honey

  One of the aspects of life up here is that if you are traveling anywhere, you're traveling by airplane. It is pretty much the only option. Certainly a goodly number of people go between communities by snowmobile, it is the only affordable option, but there are no roads, no buses, and for all intents and

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• Visiting

  Things may be a little slow here at the House over the next couple of weeks, not that the posts have been coming at a blistering pace lately anyway. In a couple of days we're traveling to Manitoba to visit with my family for an all too short visit.  The kids are super excited to

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• The Drake Shake

  Part of the adventure about going to Antarctica is getting there. And I'm not talking about the flights all the way down North and South America to Usuahia. Nor the everyday challenges of navigating around countries and customs unfamiliar to you. I'm talking about the somewhat infamous Drake Passage. The Drake Passage is the part

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• Camp Temporary

  Okay, I've been lazy. Its been much easier to post photos than to take the time to write anything. And as a result I'm getting farther behind on posts I've wanted to write.  It is hard to believe more than two weeks have already past since I had not only a day off, but the

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• Old slides

  While looking for an elusive slide of Andean Condor for the last post, I came across a box of slides from the Arctic Cruise I led in 2000, and scanned some to share. Bylot Island through the late night fog. Iceberg off Pond Inlet at the same time. Iceberg, Bylot Island and Cotton Grass. Although 

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