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It’s been a long, cold and completely brutal winter. You would think with such bitter temperatures
like -50 we wouldn’t get snow…but we did.
A lot of snow. We continuously
got snowed in. It took me hours to
shovel, just to get up the next morning and start shoveling again. So often the car got stuck in the snow. The people here in Tuktoyaktuk are so kind
and giving. It didn’t take long before
people were pushing us out of the snow drifts.
We bought a truck with 4-wheel drive.
That’s easier to get through the snow with. We drove to Inuvik to pick it up, after it
was driven from Prince George, BC.
George drove the car and I drove the truck, on the ice road, home.
Shortly after that we moved into a new house, a smaller
house, but warmer house. A house right
next door to one of the stores. Will is
happy about that, but he’s sick of moving.
This is our third move in a year.
This is George’s 5th move in the last 2 years. We’re all sick of moving. My life has been occupied by packing and
unpacking over the last 12 months. I
haven’t done much writing, work on the site, cooking, or baking, or
knitting. I’m still unpacking and trying
to squeeze everything in place. We’ve
sold and donated a lot of items. I doubt
we’re finished down-sizing yet. I won’t
have to shovel as much next winter, if we get a lot of snow. From what I was told, Tuktoyaktuk doesn’t get
a lot of snow. But for us it was insane,
and I felt it was inhumane to have to suffer a winter here. Part of me feels it’s still inhumane. There are only two stores. There isn’t a chiropractor, massage
therapist, someone who does acupressure…I can live without restaurants, but
after traveling to Inuvik for a week, then going to Yellowknife for a few days,
my back is so sore. I’ve stayed in 3
hotels in Northwest Territories. All the
beds and pillows are the same, they’re all like Super 8s. Good thing I have a massage mat…
People in Northwest Territories are extremely friendly and
very helpful, I get the feeling everyone feels that we’re all in this
together. Everyone is open to lend a
hand.
We drove to Aklavik, on the ice-road recently. That was a long drive. What was nice to see was the Robertson’s Mountain. We also drove down the ice-road to see the annual reindeer crossing. This is the last year for the ice-road, because they’re constructing a highway. I heard that’ll take 4 years before the highway is going to be easy to travel, because of mud and such. I also heard to we won’t be able to fly out of Tuktoyaktuk once the highway is completed.
We drove to Aklavik, on the ice-road recently. That was a long drive. What was nice to see was the Robertson’s Mountain. We also drove down the ice-road to see the annual reindeer crossing. This is the last year for the ice-road, because they’re constructing a highway. I heard that’ll take 4 years before the highway is going to be easy to travel, because of mud and such. I also heard to we won’t be able to fly out of Tuktoyaktuk once the highway is completed.
We’re flying out July 3rd to go to Nova Scotia
and Newfoundland. Will isn’t coming with
us. He’s looking forward to having the
summer all to himself. We’ll be back in
August. Hopefully someday we’ll drive to
Newfoundland and back. That would be and
adventure. It would still be tiring
though. I think I’ll make appointments
with a massage therapist is NL this summer.
That’ll be great. So would traveling all of the Northwest Territories and The Yukon...if I can find a decent hotel.
