TeamD Adventures

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TeamD members with grins on their faces: 8 (Even Steve,

We are back into Whitehorse, .  If you want a good sense of just how far we have traveled,

We finished last night driving down the Dempster at sunset. Perhaps the sight of the sun dropping behind a caldera like a baleful red eye, has fuelled the introspective mood. Add in a wee dram of perspective (a 12 year old Balvenie DoubleWood given to us by a sponsor “for when you get where you’re going”) and I feel compelled to do some writing.

The Dempster is some of the most remote “highway” I’ve ever been on. Nor do pictures do them true justice.

Tomorrow the competition starts again, the lure of zeros will pull us along.

The Alcan Rally made it to Tuktoyaktuk today.

We’ll get back on the updates from Whitehorse, Yukon.

".. I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation." -Melville Today our Pequod is a fabulious black BMW 325ix and our sails are full with a rowdy Beaufort Sea blow. But this is no excursion to harvest from the seas instead, a voyage of exploration. The last sign you see before getting onto the winter road to Tuk prohibits you from swimming in the area around the boat ramp. Another day in tourist mode is taking us on a roud trip from Inuvik to Tuktoyuktuk (Tuk) then halfway back down the Dempster highway to Eagle Plains. We launched down the ramp and made a right on the Makenzie river headed to the sea. The Mackenzie drains a big chunk of northern Canada west of the Rockies. Today it deposits us out on the Beaufort Sea where we follow a wide plowed path skirting the coast to Tuk (pop. 930) For safety all of the cars hav radios and the chater helps pass the time. Renee and her Florida accent was very quotable on the radio today. After lunch we’ll be heading back to Eagle Plains where we won’t hav Internet so the site will be quiet for a day or so.