Ta ta for now...

[gfish]

The house is packed up, ready to go into storage for the summer. Tomorrow I return my work laptop and turn off the DSL. Saturday morning I head out.

The plan: We drive north for 2 days, to Hay River on the Great Slave Lake. There the truck is put on a barge, and we pay an outfitter to drive us to mouth of the river at Fort Providence. We then spend 5 weeks canoeing north to Inuvik, 1700 kilometers away. Hopefully the truck is waiting for us when we get there. After getting out to see a pingo somehow, we drive back to Seattle, arriving no later than August 5. See this map for an overview of the route.

vixyish might be posting updates as she gets them, but don't expect to hear much from me until early August.

Comments

[caladri.livejournal.com]

Luck, good sir! We'll be rooting for you, without a doubt. Have a great adventure!

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Bon voyage!

I hope you have lots of bugspray.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Excited for you!

[tommusic.livejournal.com]

Have an amazing trip, and come back safely!

[eeyorerin]

Good luck!

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

Best of luck, sir. Have a fantastic time!

[k-crow.livejournal.com]

Best of luck! Already looking forward to your stories when you return in August. =)

[maribou]

Good travels! I hope everything is exciting, but not too exciting (both in the time to quietly appreciate things way and in the not being eaten by a grue way).

[niac.livejournal.com]

Good luck! Be Safe. But most importantly, have fun!

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

Have a great time. I am _so_ jealous!

What's a pingo?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

A hemispherical hill caused by a lens of ice growing in permafrost where a lake used to be. I've wanted to see one since I first heard about them, and the area just north of Inuvik has the highest concentration in the world.

Permafrost is really weird stuff. I picked up a book on geocryology in Alaska and I was hooked.

[catsittingstill.livejournal.com]

very cool; thanks! Take a picture of the pingo

Oh, and just because why should I be the only one thinking this...

There was a hilltop Jack Frost built, and pingo was its name, oh,
P I NG O, P I NG O, P I NG O
And pingo was its name, oh!

[callmem.livejournal.com]

Good luck on your trip!

[loree.livejournal.com]

Good luck! By which I mean: Don't die, we'd miss you.

[tithonium.livejournal.com]

If you die, I'm keeping your computers.

[stolen-tea.livejournal.com]

Have fun! Do cool and exciting things that leave you alive afterwards!

[ionan.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Good luck and godspeed, sir.

[airlinepilot.livejournal.com]

Bon voyage! Have a great time! :)