jay | Back home

boing-boing-boing... it takes more flights (6) to get home from Devon Island than from Beacon Valley, Antarctica (although the latter requires longer flights).

The flight on a Beech 99 out of Resolute was a bit bumpy... the plane only held 11 people and luggage. Cambridge Bay... (look, green stuff on the ground!) Yellowknife (Look... DC-3s and... trees!) and then Edmonton. I was met there by

handslive and

purplejavatroll and went to dinner (look... not camp food! Chinese... green onion pancakes!). After dinner we stopped by

eck's place and hung out for awhile during a lovely thunderstorm.

I stayed in the Varscona, my favorite Edmonton hotel directly on Whyte Avenue, the heart of the Victorian-era "old town" of Old Strathcona. Full of shops and restaurants and bookstores and bars, nowadays, it's a lively neighborhood and near

therealjae's house. alt.polycon 6 was held in the same hotel... almost exactly four years ago, I was at that APC on my way home from Devon.

Yesterday, I left Edmonton and spent several hours in Seattle having a late lunch with

who_is_she, whom I greatly appreciate. :) And arrived home around 9pm in time to see the kids off to bed and then go out to Max's Opera Cafe with Pat.

A sunny morning on Whyte Avenue... note that certain things are decriminalized in Canada ;) No, I didn't partake of their wares (need some rope, anyone?)...