First up. Happy Birthday Charley. 8 years old!! Charley is Sarah & Tim’s eldest and is a gorgeous, smart wee girl. The day has dawned wet and miserable, but our time in Edmonton is coming to an end. After a breakfast at Saratoga, a superbly run family restaurant, serving large…
The weather forecast is predicting showers for the day. Today is going to be a day of doing “Stuff”. Stuff is mainly mechanical, so there wont be much of interest to the girls. Back to the things needing attention on the vehicle. Perhaps the most important changes the fuel filter…
What a difference from yesterday. The day dawned beautiful but the biggest difference was the traffic on the road. Gone today are the endless muddy Ute’s pouring out of the wilderness from hydrocarbon exploration and processing sights. The scenery has changed to gorgeous forest, lakes and mountains again. There were…
Evocative names. Indicating a different kind of struggle. It’s raining this morning. All the massive mobile home buses are pulling out. Heading further west. Mainly from the US. it seems like if you don’t have the biggest home you have to have the biggest 4×4 being towed behind it. You…
It’s close to 9pm and we have made camp and enjoyed a great repast. Our camp tonight is probably no more than 80m from the main highway. In a small clearing that I suspect was used by contractors to park machinery during the roads construction, or reconstruction. Only a tiny…
Greyness greeted us when we emerged at 8.30am. Another shower this morning!! We’ll be dissolving! The camp site was a couple of k’s past Inuvik and a much more peaceful site. Jen seemed to sleep through the domestic’s, portable generators, barking dogs, idiots doing wheelies in the town, the previous…
Happy Birthday Dad. 107 today. Shame you only made it to 70. 🙁 A great camp site last night. Secluded, sheltered and only a few campers. The last few nights have been freezing so we put another layer on the bed, but it was a warm night, till about 4am. …
Chicken! A scrawny one at that. Our camp site last night, au natural, was much better than anything on offer in the settlement. The bonus this morning was that ‘she’ started reasonably quickly. Due to the location and difficulty of extraction, backed into a tree enclosed space, down a bank…
What a flee pit of a camp site!! A commercial site. Disgraceful. Never mind, we are again on the road early at 11am!!..:) I think the cabin is way too comfortable for early starts. We set the alarm and go straight back to sleep. It’s a promising looking day. Nice…
First up. Happy Birthday Bob. Trust that knee is working great and you can run around the block again..:). It’s already the 3rd in NZ. A couple of days ago I made a tongue-in-cheek reference to the paucity of wildlife. Well, I received a chilling email response from Bill of…