From Polar Bears to Penguins – Driving North to South across the Americas
Posted in Canada on Nov 13th, 2007
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A tranquil stretch of road. |
Why are we so eager to believe the worst?
Driving along Canada Highway 16 we came across a curious and ghastly billboard that proclaimed it the Highway of Tears. Pictures of young girls, “Killer on the loose”, and the Highway number surrounded with little cartoon tears […]
Posted in Canada, Picture of the Day on Nov 10th, 2007
Posted in Canada on Nov 9th, 2007
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Scenery along the |
The Cassiar Highway comes with high recommendations and high expectations. But is winter the right season to drive it?
It is perfectly clear that we are here in the off-season – many shops closed for the season, inns are shuttered, gas pumps switched off. This is a harsh and remote land and coming here in the winter makes it more so. We need to be more independent, more self sufficient. Up North, by Dawson City and the Dempster the winter scenery has been spectacular and what is more, it has been clear that it NEEDS to be winter to get that imagery.
Posted in Canada on Nov 6th, 2007
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The Igloo Church |
There is not much to do in the small hamlet of Inuvik. Going to a very invigorating mass at the Igloo Church.
The Peel river politely froze over so we could drive across, but the MacKenzie refused to cooperate and our forward progress was halted at Fort McPherson. We had almost given up on reaching Inuvik […]
Posted in Canada on Nov 6th, 2007
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“And now the Storm-blast came; And he was tyrannous and strong” – Coleridge, “The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” (Map this!)
On the border between the NorthWest Territories and the Yukon lies a dangerous obstacle to the Dempster motorist…Hurricane Alley.
