yup, inuvik it is frank. i drove by the nasty puke installation on the dempster highway. the polar bear was a smallish one and allegedley died from natural causes. i have a few more pics but they are in miranda's phone. i can't get used to coleman's short hair, he does look so much older, but he's still the same jibberish talking little boy. charlene fell asleep on her bunk bed rail right in the middle of telling me she wasn't tired.

here's yer pics, this high speed is the shiznit as the kids say, talk about fast pic uploading.

where's Aldo?

somewhere between fort Mcpherson and Inuvik. i'm driving down the Dempster highway, when wait...what's this? some crazy dude on a bike? yup. A fella from Italy bicycling from whitehorse, yukon to Inuvik,NWT. it's 1125km from fort mcphoo to whitehorse and then another couple of hundred from mcphoo to inuvik so about 1300km total. I had to stop and check his sanity and get a pic. he's been averaging about 100 km a day. very impressive what with the -35 weather. he just camps on the side of the road. he said he wouldn't make inuvik today, but i told him there's a hot meal and a hotel waiting for him so he might pedal a little harder. he spoke about as much english as i speak italian, but we managed to have a nice chat just the same. he passed the legal requirement for sanity, and had the gear so i let him be. i couldn't imagine biking thru those Richardson mountains tho. i'm in inuvik now and just had pizza hut woo hoo!
home tomorrow. weather permitting.

one of the best trips ever. nice little community they have here. you'll have to wait for some pics because i don't have my camera cord with me, and i don't know how to put the little card dealy in the computer. i know, what a technotard,eh? it was -35 here on wed. -5 on thurs. kinda wierd. nice hotel too, clean and modern with internet and satellite tv. to you world travellers out there that sounds lame i guess, but it wasn't so long ago in the north that the hotels were pretty rough. you often had to share a room with a stranger, no tv, no phone, usually no water.
ahh the good old days, oh and it was usually about $200 a day for those accomodations as well.
so compared to that, this is nice.
the work went well too, the trainee is a crackerjack, so my work was easy. i wouldn't mind bringing the fella to my airport to work. that's about the highest praise i know how to give.
i'm on miranda's lap top but i'll see if i can find a pic or two, nope nothing current. i'm going to inuvik tomorrow and will stay overnight and fly home via yellowknife on sunday.

well, i will soon be heading out on duty travel. it's been awhile since i've done that, and am looking forward to it. i don't mind the travel if it's to a new place i've never been. Fort MacPherson is where i'm headed for about a week. it's quite a bit further north than i've been.
my boss travels A LOT for work, so i don't mind helping out, give him a break. he's a good boss, gotta treat him right. somewhere up around Inuvik, i guess, fly to yellowknife than to inuvik and then drive to fort macphoo. somewhere on the dempster highway? who knows. i'll figure it out. shouldn't be too hard to find.

a little cryptic i guess, eh sis? we went to hay river to get the truck serviced on friday. but while i was waiting for charlene to get home from school, i was looking at the old aeroplan site and apparently we have enough points for the northern browns to make the trip. i mean, miranda ain't on the plane yet, but she says she'll do it(she hates flying). so i'm just in the planning stage right now-it may end up with just me going or all of us, who knows? but looking at spring time.
yeah the chinese? or whatever, not sure but i think it's a sex thing, hmmph, sex on the internet, who woulda thot? miranda cut coleman's hair real short, so i'm waiting for him to wake up from his nap so i can see what it looks like.