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Dog Sledding in Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Canada.

Big Beaver Diaries / Canada

Dog Sledding in Canada: Fort Chipewyan, Alberta

Dog Sledding in Fort Chipewyan. Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, Canada.  13 January 2018.  I had an alarm set for 08:05. Neither Julie nor I wanted to get up but time was of the essence in Fort Chipewyan. Of course, there is time to be used wisely when you are on holidays. And even when you have a massive day, it is important to take partake in vacation horizontal bed dancing. The world can wait! Julie and I packed up, showered up, and headed...

Traveling Canadian Ice Roads: Fort McMurray to Fort Chipewyan

Big Beaver Diaries / Canada

Traveling Canadian Ice Roads: Fort McMurray to Fort Chipewyan

Traveling Canadian Ice Roads: Fort McMurray to Fort Chipewyan. 12 January 2018. I was nearly pacing the floor waiting for Julie to finish her course in the morning to come and collect me. It is hard to know what a person is going to need in northern Canada. I was already far north in Fort McMurray, Alberta, but we were going to be heading much further north than that on an ice-road…further north than most Canadian minds think of, to...

Dogs Partying on the Beach in Todos Santos

Mexico 2016

Dogs Partying on the Beach in Todos Santos

Dogs Partying on the Beach in Todos Santos. Nov 19 We were up early to get to the realtors place to collect the keys and be lead 15 miles out of Todos Santos to Casa Tortuga, which is Kristen’s new habitat for the next six months.  The $1,200 a month house during the high season, secluded on the beach, has 6 meter ceilings and is a beautiful home that self sufficiently runs itself on solar energy.  The walls are 8...

California Cruising

Mexico 2016

California Cruising: Cool Dogs and Humans

Nov 14 It was about noon by the time my friend Kristen and I had made goodbyes to our new friends and headed out on the road.  It felt so good to get going.  We stopped in a gas station on the way and I experienced running water for the first time in 11 days.  I seem to have failed to have appreciated it in my normal life where it is usually present.  It is pretty great.  You just put...

Kigali to Kibuye: Rwanda is Beautiful

Rwanda 2016

Kigali to Kibuye: Rwanda is Beautiful

Kigali to Kibuye: Rwanda is Beautiful. Jan 31 At 09:00, hotel management knocked on the door of my room to ask for money.  I paid them and crawled back into bed beside Nana.  We had another tussle this morning!  Ah, life is good…  We fell back asleep and got up at 13:00.  She went home and I hung out in the bar to wait for Leopold.  Leopold was too hung over and decided that he was not going to drive...

Regina – Beer Dog

Big Beaver Diaries / Canada

Regina – Beer Dog

Regina – Beer Dog. September 5 Beaner told me that stench is added to propane because it is actually odourless.  That is my interesting fact of the day.  I wonder how it was agreed on what the international stench added would smell like.  Perhaps someone create a smell and everyone said, “This scent furthermore will represent propane and will never represent anything else.  Hereto, all propane processed on earth will have this specific smell added to its gastric compound.”  That...

Bolivia is Beautiful

Big Beaver Diaries / Bolivia 2014

Bolivia is Beautiful

Bolivia is Beautiful. April 27. It was a ‘by-myself’ kind of day, and that was totally awesome.  It has been a long time since I fought the Spanish speaking war alone.  And I am terrible at it, but sometimes it is great to just get through it and try to communicate with my 36 33 word vocabulary without someone interjecting with their more useful and fancy Spanish words. Roberta was heading to Sucre as well, but I waited her out and let...