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None of the above

May 022011

This isn’t news for 30% of my readership – but today May 2nd, 2011 is the day that we as Canadian Citizens choosing who is the most capable party to lead our country. Unlike the United States directly below us, we have multiple parties with significant support which has made our past few governments result in a minority government causing endless bickering between parties, laws not being passed, and a whole series of deceptive activities by the party with the most votes. Parliament sessions have been stayed and delayed, questions [read more]

Northwest Territories Statistics

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Aug 132010

Statistics while cycle touring throughout Northwest Territories, Canada, with photos, travelers information, daily logs of distance, elevation and costs, journal entries.

Mechanical (Mental?) Meltdowns

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Jul 172010

Here’s an interesting twist to the journey. I’m back where I was 15 days ago, in the Northwest Territories, taking in the spectacular sights, sounds, and people of Yellowknife. Even stranger, is that I’m here without my bicycle! I did mention before in an earlier post that I somehow forgot to make it to the Legislative Building to do a head stand in the Caucus room, so I came back. Also, there is a festival happening in its 30th year known as Folk on the Rocks, and an airshow in [read more]

Sparkles from the Diamond in the North

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Jul 032010

First off, I must apologize for the lack of updates since arriving in Yellowknife. The fact of the matter is that I’ve been incredibly busy, if you can call sitting on a sun porch watching the endless sun from a far, safely protected by the mosquitoes, wasps, and brief amounts of rain ‘busy’. The beauty of the capital city of the Northwest Territories has impacted me in more ways than one, and I found myself quickly settling into a very comfortable spot in life. So far, this has been the [read more]

Made it to Yellowknife

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Jun 222010

I’m happy to report I made it into Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada by Bicycle safe and sound. Some of the most treacherous conditions I have ever experienced equated to a physical and mental test of the most extreme. The bugs, the road conditions and the lack of available resources and services, and threats from wildlife all combined together forced you to be very attentive and in tune with what was going on around you. One wrong move could equate to failure. It’s not about the destination, but the journey, however in [read more]

Getting Excited for Yellowknife

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Jun 172010

I’m better now, I washed some of my frustrations away with some rum and chamomile tea after sucking it up, pushing through and getting out of the gravel mess. The roads did get better like Klaus said, and the cruel joke of the 1km of pavement when exiting Route 7 and connecting with Route 1 was enough to give me motivation and reassurance that there is indeed an end in sight, even though it was the halfway point. Conveniently, the area was called Checkpoint, and I hoped to score at [read more]

Buggin’ Out

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Jun 162010

Only a few people have seen me really lose it. I’ve become frustrated, a bit angry, and stormed around but only _snapped_ a handful of times. There is one thing in life that has ruined me for good – which is people living above me. See, I had neighbours and while I worked from home I could hear their world. With little possibility for me to have it go away short of drowning it out with more noise (music/earplugs) it was impossible for me to concentrate and enjoy peace and [read more]

Rut Averted

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Jun 152010

Today had the potential of tearing me to pieces. I awoke at about 9:30am, due to the timezone shift and quickly packed up my area. No animals visited me in the middle of the night, and I put everything together, planning on a breakfast away from where I camped down the road. It was hot, little to no clouds in the sky, and the roads were bone dry. This posed a problem to me, my good speeds I was achieving late in the evening were brought down to 5 km [read more]

All I want for Christmas is two cans of DEET

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Jun 142010

All I want for Christmas is two cans of DEET

Another night sitting in my tent scared to death at whatever it is tromping around in the woods. I’m stealth camping in the North West Territories, and i figure it could be a bunch of things. Over top of the roar of the bugs that sound like an oncoming semi on the highway which is only a few hundred feet away, I can hear ducks flapping their wings, diving into the small pond, bangs and crackles of twigs snapping, and the odd weird sound. Yup – this is wilderness. Outside [read more]