The Peel River Googly
Jul 20th, 2007 by Shreesh
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First setback encountered.
We did not spend much time planning the northern part of the drive. After all this is the United States and Canada, right? What could possibly go wrong?
At the End of a Long Drive
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We didn't make the decision, the decision made us. On October 20th, 2007, we left our comfortable city of San Francisco to follow a simple algorithm - go North till the road ends then turn around and then go as far South. In between those two points was the stage, the timeline, the space, where we made things happen and things happened to us.
The past is fleeting and the stories, the sights and the feelings are perishable. One sees what one wants to see, and perhaps we are not capable of more. We saw that people are kind and helpful even if they were not materially rich. Some we could understand even though we didn't speak the same language, the motivations of others were incomprehensible even though we did. In the end fragments remain - the smell of roasting chocolate, a flock of snow Ptarmigians on snow, the creaking of the rainforest, the rough feathers of penguins, and the intoxication of Curanto.
So these are our stories. Every time you visit the site you will see a random post below. Each starts with Lo que pasa es que...
Are you two going to swim?
Daddy
Check http://www.Vanagon.com/journeys/inuvik/ Their journey in 1996 was from Vancouver, B.C. to Inuvik, NT ( roughly about 2600 miles)
Cool journey, but they made it in the summer!!! Look at this account of a winter trip:
http://www.paulwberg.com/tuktoyaktuk
Much more adventurous…