I am the basis of all wealth, the Heritage of the wise,the thrifty and the prudent. I am the poor mans' joy and comfort, the rich mans' prize, the right hand of capital, the silent partner of many thousandths of successful men. I am the solace of the widow, the comfort of old age.the cornerstone of security against misfortune and want. I am handed down to children through generations, as a thing of great worth. I am the choicest fruit of toil, Credit respects me. Yet I am humble. I stand before every man bidding him to know me for what I am and possess me. I grow and increase in value through countless days. Though I seem dormant, my worth increases, never ailing, never ceasing.Time is my aid and population heaps up my gain. Fire the elements I defy, for they cannot destroy me. My possessors learn to beliive in me; invariably they become envied. While all things wither and decay, I survive. The centuries find me younger, increasing in my strength. I am the foundation of Banks, the producer of food and the basis of all wealth throughout the world. Yet I am so common that thousands, unthinking and unknowing, pass me by.

I am land.

-anonymous

Monday, September 18, 2006
Location: Bison Ranch, Alberta

This morning I awoke at 7am to the rooster’s crow. I climbed out of bed in the van and threw on some ripped jeans and army pants, preparing myself for a days work. I came into the house to the fresh smell of organic coffee brewing, cream from the jersey cow ready and waiting, while Janet cooks up eggs from their hens the day before. I think I’m in paradise ;-)

When most of us in the world go and buy our food, we have no idea where it’s all coming from. We buy milk that is mass-produced and shipped from far away places where it’s been sitting in large storage tanks. The idea of fresh food is a complete farce. Nothing is really fresh anymore, we buy ‘fresh’ fruit transported thousands of miles by truck, or imported from far away places like Mexico. The only reason it maintains its fresh appearance is probably because it’s soaked in pesticides from both field and factory. Here, on the other hand, I’m sitting eating eggs straight from the hen, and using cream straight from the cow. What strikes me, is how simple it all is. I’m thinking about the fact that all of our food is now part of such a complex system. This system, I would argue, disconnects us from nature and disconnects us from the source of our food, the farmer. We can no longer put a face to our produce, and for most of us, gone are the days of the open-air markets and those lingering conversations with the people who tend the land. We’ve replaced a beautiful, simple and connected lifestyle with mass production, big box grocery stores, teenaged cashiers and preservatives and pesticides. Like with oil and gas, I understand that it’s not a black and white issue, but I long for the past, I long for nature, and I long for a world where we’re reconnected to our food. I also believe that in this world, where the farmer is able to sell direct to the customer, we may find the solution to many of the problems of big agribusiness.

What I find so incredible is that the Canadian Food and Drug Administration has actually made whole unpasteurized milk illegal. It is illegal for you to milk your jersey cow and feed it to your child. It is illegal for you to sell whole milk to your neighbors, despite a serious demand. You see, many people want whole milk. Many people want a product that holds a connection to the place that it came from. In addition many people want milk that hasn’t had all the beneficial enzymes and antimicrobial qualities pasteurized out of it. You see, when you pasteurize milk, what you are doing is subjecting it to sterilization and irradiation, which removes much of the original goodness. In many cases of our current big factory farming this pasteurization is needed due to contamination from huge storage vats, mechanically overworked dairy cows, and milk that needs to keep for longer than a few days on a shelf. But… the question remains, why has the original method where the food travel from field to plate become illegal, with consequences of fines of up to $250,000? Why have we built a system that outlaws the small farmer, preventing them from building a local economy?

These are questions being posed by the people who are trying to go back to a system that always made sense. Many of the proponents of slow food who want to reintroduce connectivity and locality to their food are also up to the same challenges. Being here, experiencing and learning what I’m learning, and based on my own intuition and longing, I fully support and stand behind these kinds of changes. As I’ve echoed many times in the past, I personally feel that the only way for us to go forward is to reconnect with many of the simple tried and true practices of the past.

peace,
d

Here are some photos from sausage making at the ranch,

Sunday, September 17, 2006
Location: Bison Ranch, Alberta

Winter is getting ready to take hold of Alberta. In the past few days we’ve had a tremendous amount of rain and the weather has been of that nature that pulls the warmth right out of you, heading straight into your bones. Just west of Calgary there have been reports of some serious snowfall. I’m supposed to be in the desert of the central U.S. by now… but I’m not yet done here… everything in it’s own time.

The onslaught of winter is bad news though, when you live in a van. Gone are the days of swimming in N.W.T. rivers and drying off on the rocks. Gone are the days of sitting in parks working on the project, while I’m bracing myself for those cold days of frozen fingers snapping photos, and trying to find ways to stop my water from freezing overnight while I sleep.

Due to the weather and it being Sunday, today was a pretty relaxed day at Chris and Janet’s farm. I read a bout Slow Food, helped Chris feed the pigs, sheep & chickens, and spent some time training Moses out in the field. Tomorrow I think we’re going to make sausages and bring in some more meat from out in the field. I’m interested to learn about the entire food process, from field to plate, and get in touch with what it really means to be a meat eater, and how to do things with care and respect, versus the mainstream method of factory farming.

As Chris and I have been speaking over the past few days, the phrase that keeps entering our conversations is, THE DISCONNECT. So many of us are so disconnected, not only from our food, but from nature in general.

As I sit in the kitchen and watch Janet make fresh butter with yesterdays cream from their jersey cow Karmen, one thing is certain, where I am now, it’s pretty hard to feel disconnected from the land and everything it provides.

peace,
d

Saturday, September 16, 2006
Location: Bison Ranch, Alberta

So, like with all places, I was in Edmonton, Alberta for a little longer than I had expected. This is mainly because I had to get Moses some more shots to get him travel ready for when we go into the States. I also met some amazing people while I was in Edmonton and I’m very thankful for all the wonderful conversations and experiences. Everywhere I’ve traveled people have opened their doors to me, and now with Moses, I’m finding even more opportunities presenting themselves, and together, we are being brought into the lives of some fabulously open individuals.

There’s also just something about dog lovers. People who are open to dogs seem to really have it together as far as I’m concerned. With a dog, certain things that were once important seem to fall away, while other things begin to make more sense. There’s something about working with a dog that gets you in touch with the bigger picture. I can’t quite explain it, if you have dog I’m sure you know what I’m talking about… anyway, dogs are good. I like dogs ;-)
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Today I arrived at this bison ranch that I was first turned onto when I met a guy named Mike in Dawson City a few months ago. Mike and I were talking about my film project and he told me I should definitely talk to his parents who are bison ranchers and proponents of slow food in Alberta. Now, here I am… full circle.

I’ve been here since 12:45 in the afternoon and already I can tell you, this is the spot. Mike’s parents Janet and Chris are in tune with some pretty amazing ideas regarding food and agriculture. I’ve been listening to Chris and Janet speak about food and agriculture for only 8 hours or so, and already I feel like my head is going to explode… Explode in a good way. In a way that changes you life and never lets you look at what you’re eating with the same eyes again. In a way that teaches you not to take things for granted and gets you back in touch with the source of everything. The land.

It’s only been a short period of time, but I’m certain the next while here will be crucial to my project, opening doors of perception that will undoubtedly shape my future path throughout the continent.

Agriculture and what we’re doing to our land, is a major issue for all of us. I don’t think we really have any idea how serious it is, or what other options are out there. I’m here to learn what I can and to do my part to spread knowledge regarding the sustainable alternatives that are already taking hold throughout the world.

peace,
d

From my good friend Grant over in Spain,
enjoy,
peace,
d
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Dan, I just read the update to your blog, but the part that interested
me most was the most recent posting about the need for energy in our
society and what it "does" for (to) us. Awesome writing man!!!

Mainly, I don't feel that energy abundance is such a bad thing, just
that the obtainment of energy should be done in the most efficient, yet
environmentally sound way. What energy (read, technology) has done for
us as a society principally is to allow us to store larger and larger
amounts of extrasomatic information. That is, information stored
outside of the human mind. As we developed over the course of human
history, we learned how to preserve information (things we learned) in
such a way that it could be passed on to future generations and hence,
such as to not reset the clock, so to speak, on learning. That is, a
latter generation wouldn't need to know the specifics of how to
construct, for instance, a house. Thus, things wouldn't need to be
re-learned over and over, information and, thus, knowledge could be
cumulative. In the early days, extrasomatic information was in the form
of, cave writings, stone tablets, paper, libraries, etc...

Now, we have, through use of the abundance of cheap energy available
since the start of the industrial revolution, been able to store
increasingly larger amounts of information. Think of the hard drive,
the cd/dvd, the mainframe computer, digital libraries of information.
Just as recent as the 80's we were talking about kilobytes (1000's of
bytes), then it was the megabyte (millions of bytes), now, commonly, the
gigabyte (billions of bytes) and presently, the terabyte (trillions of
bytes) is upon us. Here at work we store and move around terabytes of
data everyday. Soon, it will be the petabyte, the exabyte
(interestingly, my spellchecker detected as "mistakes" 'petabyte' and
'exabyte', but not the others, evidence that the word has not yet
become part of standard English lexicon) and so on...

How much is a terabyte, really? Ostensibly, the US Library of Congress
(the World's largest physical library) contains "only" 20 terabytes of
plain text. How many books is that? Millions, I am sure!

So, what's my point? My point is, without the abundance of energy that
we had during the cheap oil fiesta of the industrial revolution, we will
NOT be able to sustain the storage of this information. No matter how
many windmills, solar panels or nuclear power plants are built, there
will not be the same easy access to energy as we have presently. So,
what's going to happen? Well, the information will slowly (or perhaps,
not so slowly) be lost. I consider what is the average lifespan of the
typical hard drive or cd/dvd. Not long. On the order of decades,
maybe. Certainly not as long as those cave paintings.

This storage of information is how we order our civilization. It is how
we have managed to manipulate so much data to maintain our ever more
complex society. As we begin to lose the high energy input (fossil
fuels) the second law of thermodynamics will raise its weary head and
things will begin to deteriorate, our buildings, our cars and our hard
drives. Just as an apple will invariably rot and become compost or the
mountains will inevitably erode to the seas, this project we call
'civilization', whatever that means, will return full circle to where it
began, the earth, the soil. This will take many millions of years.

But, in the short term, the human concept of time, the problem will be
more visceral. We won't have the energy to run things the way they
were. That means, the economy, the cars and the computers may be toast.
In recent years, we have been able to make abundant use of stored solar
energy by burning the organisms (fossils) as fuel. But, it took
millions of years and tremendous pressures for them to be converted into
flammable hydrocarbons such as oil and gas. We humans have used most of
this now and, so on a human time scale this is effectively a
non-renewable resource. Ironically, it will be OUR fossils that will
become the fossil fuels millions of year hence for whomever is around to
burn them. I predict they'll make the same mistakes with usage as we
did. It´s so damn tempting!

After all, it is irresistible to not use energy if it is there. It lets
us do stuff. So, like you mentioned, this is why the industrialized
nations have been so eager to grab on to the remaining oil. They went
to Iraq to secure the oil at its source. They hope that the future
generations will forgive them (or at least forget) for lying about the
real reason to go to war. The final resource wars have begun. These
wars might play out over many decades and centuries, but what it all
boils down to is access to energy to keep the system running. And, so,
I sarcastically quote Dick Cheney who infamously said, "The American
lifestyle is not negotiable". That sentence explains more about
American foreign policy than anything. Unfortunately, the average
American Joe (or Canadian) is in the dark about the true cost of war. I
recently saw a bumper sticker on a gas guzzling SUV parked in a suburban
neighbourhood of Ottawa. It simply said, "NO WAR". I just chuckled
and thought to myself, "at least your heart is in the right place".

Though, when it all plays out, I predict that, although civilization may
corrode, culture will remain strong, because culture is really what
being a human is all about. ;)

- Grant G. Buffett

Friday, September 8, 2006
Location: Edmonton

Although I know my next real destination is a Bison Ranch in Castor, Alberta, I’ve still been feeling a little lost in terms of my process since leaving Fort McMurray. I’ve come to this place of ‘what next?’ and ‘am I on the path?’

This is how the art/life process goes, filled with so much uncertainty and trepidation. When I was explaining my process to journalist and new friend Michael Simpson in Vegreville, his response was as follows,

“As long as you’re making choices, you’re ok.”

Now, I’m not so sure I get it, but either way, I made the choice to come to Edmonton.

I was never planning on entering urban spaces on this trip, but in the end I had few choices, as I needed to purchase some cheap DV tapes and specific camera cleaning supplies.

Walking Moses down Whyte Ave shortly after arrival, I discovered that the film An Inconvenient Truth was still in the theatre. I am quite certain that this film is the reason I came here. It’s an excellent film about the reality of global warming and how we’re in serious trouble. For me it confirmed that, I AM on the right path, and gave me the focus I needed for my project. It confirmed that I’m not so crazy to be speaking about the collapse of our civilization and exploring the importance of returning to tradition ways of knowledge and truth. I have to continue on my road, and add my voice to the choir of so many others who are saying, WE’RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE! It’s nice to have someone like Al Gore, the subject of the film, expressing the same conclusions.

More than anything else I’ve suggested you read or watch, I suggest you see An Inconvenient Truth… It will provide you with a broader perspective as it did for me.

A quote that stood out for me from the film,

"The time of half-measure has passed. We are entering a period of consequences"
- Winston Churchill

Also what was memorable was Gore talking about how his family grew tobacco and then how his sister died of lung cancer.. and how you often only realize what your actions are doing once it's too late.. how epiphanies often come a little too late for most of us.


Peace,
D

Wednesday, September 6, 2006
Location: Vagreville, Alberta

Drifting through the grain fields of Alberta, I finally came to a rest in Vagreville, where I had come to connect to the Internet, so as to feel less lost. Like with all places, it wasn’t long before I was chatting with locals about the place I had found myself in.

I plopped myself down against a brick wall outside the Vegmin Learning Centre, who had offered me their wireless, when a guy walks up to me and asks, holding up my project info flyer, “Is this you?”

What follows is an interview about my project with Michael Simpson a local journalist. Then Michael gives me a run down of where I am… Hearing Michael, I ask him if he’d be interested in doing an interview for my project. Hehe, full circle.

I head over to Michaels farm around 7pm and tell him I’d only like to record audio. “Well come upstairs!” he says grinning. We walk up past the bedroom into a full sound studio as Michael explains that he also produces music. Ah, sweet serendipity!

Michael and I talk for an hour about his work test drilling for gas, and all the stories and research he’s done on rural Alberta. After the discussion, he clicks his computer mouse and burns it all onto disc for me. “There you go!” he says. I mention that if he does any stories that fit with my project, drop me a line.

Somehow I think all these media connections I’m making will somehow come full circle again in the future.

In the end, again I am finding there is great value in being lost. There is great value in losing yourself so that someone or something of importance can find you.

Peace,
D

A good article from my friend Dan in T.O.

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/08/29/SlushFund/

peace
d

Monday, September 4, 2006
Location: Small clearing hidden off Hwy 63 running south from Fort McMurray

On my way back from Fort McMurray and capturing some footage of the oil sands… O man o man! I guess that’s exactly it. MAN. What mankind is capable of constructing. The scale of the development north of Fort McMurray is dumbfounding. I have never seen anything in my life of such an immense scale. It’s the absolute epitome of industry!

Standing at the base of a major oil processing plant, the fumes inescapable, it strikes me that when it comes down to it all, this is one of the hearts of the western world. A heart built by man, not to pump blood, but instead, sweet crude.

The oil being pumped out of these tar sands will be used to fuel not only our cars, but the entire western economy. So here, from this gigantic manmade heart, everything is set into motion. The oil flows down the pipelines and via large tanker trucks to the places of greatest demand. And just like the squeaky wheel that gets the grease, everything starts to move. We make plastics, we fuel factories, we heat homes, we make petroleum based pesticides, we run tractors, we pump water through irrigation systems, we build larger and more complex cities with skyscrapers and big box stores, and we drive, we drive, we drive. The wheels of all of humanity are set in motion.

One thing that is pretty easy to do in this day and age, is harp negatively on oil and gas. When we look at the world, we see global warming, melting ice caps, hurricanes and increasing environmental catastrophe -- most of which is caused by our incessant burning of fossil fuels. In the wake of all this, DOWN WITH BIG OIL!!, becomes the obvious slogan.

But not so fast! It’s so simple to take the easy road, the world is going to shit; time to blame big oil! I personally do this. I blame big oil. Big oil starts wars, big oil is destroying the planet, big oil is wreaking havoc! Now, if you ask me, all of this is true, but the question I’ve had bumping around in my head, is why.

I’ve come to the following, and feel free to write me and express your thoughts on this one, sfdwindpath@gmail.com

You see, big oil is really at the heart of everything we do and everything we’ve built. Nowhere in our western world, or maybe the entire globe, can you find a place where fossil fuels haven’t had a huge impact. Energy is at the heart of the entire technological system we’ve built, and without energy, all of our technology becomes mere clutter. The second part to all of this, is, we LOVE technology. I’ve met so many environmental activists or people who are just down on big oil, and so many of these people, including myself, are talking out of both sides of their mouths. “Down with Big Oil… Man I love the new IPOD… Give me a drive to the store… Down with Big Oil… Did you hear the new It’s Not Black & White album? It’s so good, I just downloaded it on my laptop… I really love Tofu.”

Now there are people out there who are hardcore envirojunkies (no fossil fuels, no packaging, no tv or computers) and those people are my heroes. Not because they are making difficult choices, but because they understand that there really is no other way. They understand that the only way into the future is to go back, and they understand that the changes to our world are rapidly approaching, whether we’re ready or not, so you might as well do your best to get ready. Downsize, or get off the grid. I hold great respect for these types of people.

I kind of lost track… oh yeah… hypocrisy… you see, everything, even tofu, is dependent on fossil fuels. There is almost no way you can escape the fossil fuel paradigm. And based on all of this, we are caught in a place with no easy answers. So maybe we should all stop pretending we have them.

“I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. ” - Socrates

So what do we do? Well here is what I think our government, and the US government is doing. Get the oil. Get it all! The countries with the most fossil fuels at the end of the day, will be the countries that survive the upcoming hard times. With fossil fuels and our current technological infrastructure we can create almost anything. And most importantly the country with the most fossil fuels at their disposal is also the country with the most military mobility. You can’t fight a war with solar panels, or hydrogen, you need good ol’ fashion sweet crude! This is a cold hard fact, although we all know the real solution is to end war altogether.

The other thing I’m thinking, is if you focus your energy on fossil fuels instead of alternative energy you get the best of both worlds. You get the fossil fuel, easy to use, infrastructure already in place, while everyone else does the difficult work of developing the alternative technology. Later, maybe in the not so distant future, when we actually start to run out of fossil fuels, we can then shift to technology already developed with all it’s kinks worked out. I’m wondering if this is somehow the logic behind the Tar Sands and Mackenzie Gas Project.

The question still remains, is there another way?

You see all of the above is based on competition with other countries and fear of war. Now although all these fears may be very real, I also think they are partially created by an overall lack of vision on the part of our government and leaders. I wonder what Canada would look like if we took the huge subsidies to oil and gas and redirected them to alternative energy development in cooperation with the rest of the world. I wonder what the Canada would look like if our leadership actually gave us the cold hard facts on where we’re headed (maybe they don’t know?) and then allowed us to determine how we actually wanted to move forward. I wonder what the world would look like if a few leaders actually stood up and said, enough is enough, the time for world peace is NOW, and putting aside their own countries self interests, actually worked towards that goal. I know these statements are all fairly idealistic, and that the global situation is a complex one, but it seems to me, that very few leaders are actually presenting anything visionary. No leaders seem to be challenging our current behind-the-times model that dates back to the industrial revolution. And this lack of creativity and vision is what I see as our biggest problem. I think it is this lack of vision, creativity and thus versatility that will probably end us up in a serious shit-storm in the next few decades.

I only know one thing for certain, just like Socrates, I don’t have any clue regarding what the F&%|< is really going on! But I have a feeling we’re in deep trouble. And maybe that’s it, maybe it’s all about feelings and intuition? And as cliché as it sounds, maybe it’s time to stop following our heads, and instead, start following our hearts.

Peace,
D

Saturday, September 2, 2006
Location: Winigami Provincial Park

I just wanted to let everyone know that I got a dog. I haven’t mentioned it yet but I picked him up in Wrigley a few weeks ago. He’s a Lab Husky/Shepard mix and his name is Moses, after the Moses family of Wrigley. Anyway, he had all his shots and got all his paperwork done in Yellowknife, and is set to travel. It’s been two weeks out on the road together and he’s proving to be THE BEST DOG EVER!!!! He’s really S.M.A.R.T. as at 3 months he already knows how to sit, lie down, heel, come, and is working on staying… now if only I could teach him how to drive ;-)

Peace,
D

Saturday, September 2, 2006
Location: Winagami Wildland Provincial Park, Alberta

I put in a lot of driving yesterday until finally driving off the road and camping in Winagami Provincial Park in a spot I’m pretty sure I’m not supposed to be camping. Oops, didn’t see the sign…

Something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately is buying and selling of natural spaces. It’s driving me crazy. I guess this relates to pipelines, and oil sands, and clear-cutting… but that’s not what I’m about to rant about. What I want to rant about is campsites! Ok, so you’re a guy living in a van, you don’t have much money, you’re kinda living off the land as it were, and every once in awhile you like to stop at an official campsite. The only problem is $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Most of the campsites I’ve been to cost about $12/night, which isn’t bad if you’re on a weekend getaway, but is no good when you’re living in a van for an extended period of time. Due to the prices, I usually sleep in parking lots or on the sides of highways, somewhere I’m not sure I’m supposed to be. Now I wouldn’t write this blog if I had only come across $12 sites, since I understand the costs: water bills, toilets, wood for fires, tourist information. But, on the way south, I stopped and, for the first time on this trip, stayed at an official campsite. The campsite is Kakisa home of Lady Evelyn Falls and it cost $15/night, plus $5 for firewood… to CAMP!!! I paid and decided to go without the fire.

You see, somehow, as far as I’m concerned camping should just be one of those things left untouched by the almighty dollar. All this money exchanging hands just to get back on the land, it just doesn’t seem right.

Now I know I’m wrong on this one. I know that there are thousands of tourists visiting campsites each year, and I know a lot of work goes into managing the campground resource. But still, in my mind a campsite should cost 10$ max, and ideally you should be able to find a place to pitch a tent for $5. It should be a Canadian standard! As a taxpayer, is this too much to ask? Hehe.

Anyway, until the price of camping goes down, you’ll be able to find me on abandoned roadways, parking lots, maybe blending in with old cars left to rust in a farmer’s field, or anywhere else economics doesn’t enter into the equation. Somewhere deep down, maybe innately, I just have a hard time pulling out my wallet to commune with Mother Nature.

Peace
d

Thursday August 31, 2006
Location: High Level, Alberta

Fall is coming; I can feel it in the air. In only a week the evenings have become cool and crisp and the days have that feeling that they could turn on you at any moment. Along the sides of the highway the poplar leaves have begun to yellow… It’s time to head south, before I get trapped in winter’s wonderland.

It’s only been a few hours, but I’m already missing the NWT. It’s strange, but true. Coming into Alberta you can see that just behind the trees that line the highway, there’s open spaces of clear-cut. This combined with the fact that there are already so many more people on the highways. I seem to be constantly tailgated by Alberta oil & gas workers racing home to their cozy High Level motel rooms.

The other thing I’m missing about the NWT, is how natural it is to light a fire. I’m not sure if it’s First Nation, Gwich’in or Inuvialuit influence, but it seems almost anytime or any place is an ok time and place to build a little fire and make some tea. I don’t get this sense from Alberta, but I could be wrong, I just got here. (I AM wrong. Sept 6th, found some places to light fires, but not as numerous)

Oh and CBC North… Oh how I miss CBC North… I miss the afternoon radio shows in Dogrib, Inuvialuktun and Slavey; languages I don’t speak, but love to listen to. And I miss the personal nature of the shows, as they send out daily birthday wishes or announce celebrations within the community. “To Lyle and Elke, best wishes from your son Daniel who misses you, loves you lots and wishes you all the best.” Just like that. It makes the world feel so much smaller and gives you a greater sense of community, people and place. CBC Just across the border isn’t bad, it’s just faster, slicker, and more mainstream, lacking that certain northern charm I’ve grown used to.

Oh and Sonya (at CBC in Inuvik), as I passed the border I thought of calling you, but there weren’t any phones. Go figure ;-) So a raincheck on that interview, we’ll get it done someday, maybe when the finished film travels back to where it all started. That would be a beautiful full circle.

Lastly, I miss the people. I’ve met some really great people throughout the NWT and Yukon. As I said, it’s only been a few hours, but knowing the road I’m set to travel brings the future heartache into the now. I hope to see you all sooner than later. I definitely plan on coming back.

Peace,
D