Nekite River – Der Weg ist das Ziel — Nekite River, British Columbia, Canada
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Nekite River, British Columbia, Canada
Also, da bin ich! Auf der Great Bear Lodge. Und der Weg hierher war mehr als abenteuerlich.
Lasst euch aber zuerst sagen, es ist ziemlich gut hier draußen. Die Leute auf den erste Eindruck alle supernett und die Lodge relativ simpel aber dafür sehr gut durchdacht.
Aber nun zu meinem Start: Heute morgen bin ich pünktlich von Adele abgeholt worden.
Sie bringt mich zurück zum Flughafen wo auf mich eine Goose wartet. Eine Propellermaschine die sowohl auf einem Rollfeld als auch auf dem Wasser landen kann. Ich bin die einzige Beförderung heute und darf deshalb beim Piloten vorne mit im Cockpit sitzen. Allein das finde ich persönlich schon ziemlich aufregend und einmalig. Noch einmaliger ist allerdings, dass wir nicht an der Lodge landen können weil die Wolken zu tief hängen. Wir landen stattdessen bei einem Dock im Nirgendwo um 4 Forstarbeiter aufzugabeln. Meine erste Landung auf dem Wasser! Großartig!
Also fliegen wir weiter nach Port McNeill um die Männer dort wieder abzusetzen.
Tja, aber what to do now with the Nekite-Girl? Das Wetter wird immer schlechter und Mike Stewart, der Pilot lädt mich deshalb als erstes zum Lunch ein.
Danach können wir doch noch starten. Aber nicht zur Lodge sondern zurück nach Port Hardy.
Dort holt mich Adele wieder ab und ich gehe davon aus die Nacht wieder im Hostel zu verbringen.
ABER es gibt einen Plan B und ich starte mit einer noch kleineren Maschine die gerade mal Platz für mich, den Koffer und Piloten hat zu einem neuen Anflug.
Diesmal klappts und ich lande spät aber immerhin überhaupt auf der Lodge.
Allein der Rundflug heute war ein einmaliges Erlebnis. Ich bin froh hier zu sein allerdings hab ich ja auch noch nichts getan. Ich habe ein 50seitiges Handbuch bekommen, eine DVD über Safety and Bears. Ich bekomme ein Sicherheitstraining inkl. Umgang mit Bärenspray. Ich glaub ich werde hier mehr als nur ein paar Naturwunder erleben.
Ich bin gespannt…
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Second time around — Kirtland, NM, New Mexico, United States
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Kirtland, NM, New Mexico, United States
This was not our first time in Kirtland, New Mexico! No, late last spring, we ventured this way and did a show for the high school here. They enjoyed the show so much, they called up Camfel and scheduled a new show at the beginning of this year, and here we are showing up in their performance arts center once again.
We reunited with Chris, the technical director of the facility, and had a wonderful set-up and show.
We’re here in the area for three days, so we’ll have our afternoons and evenings free. This evening, Kelsey and I found a lovely little park with nice walking trails that follow a river. Nice walking areas are so hard to find on our job, as most hotels are adjacent to the freeway, and in non-residential parts of town. But here in such a small town, we were right next to a relaxing boardwalk.
So! Here we chill in Kirtland for the second time in three months!
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Murdon’t — Murdo, South Dakota, United States
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Murdo, South Dakota, United States
Day 12 Sioux Falls to Pierre, then detour to Murdo, SD
Miles traveled: 296
States covered: South Dakota
Weather: Nice.
Meltdowns: 1 mega, class 5 tantrum for Abby (with possible destruction of property involved — mom has to check if the car seat tray she kicked is fixable) and it was unfortunately just after we tried 4 hotels and couldn’t find a place to stay. Note that Owen has not had a meltdown in days — Go O!
Highlights: the Falls in Sioux Falls, Porter Sculpture Park, Corn Palace, South Dakota State Capitol.
Lowlights: Staying at the Days Inn Murdo and eating at the Murdo diner.
Abby QOTD: “Get it dad. Shove it. Put a blister in it.” Words of encouragement, as her dad tries to swat flies in our motel room.
Trivia from yesterday goes to Andy O again — World’s Largest Ball of Twine by a Community in Cawker, Kansas.
South Dakota Trivia du jour: What is the South Dakota state sport?
We went to see the strangely placed “David” statue in Sioux Falls. It doesn’t quite measure up to the one in Florence, but nice cultural effort Sioux Falls. Then, despite Ann’s statement that she was ready to be underwhelmed, we stopped at the actual Falls in Sioux Falls and were pleasantly surprised by the falls and nice park there. Overall though, Sioux Falls is not at the top of our must return to cities.
Paul then had to stop at one of his weird statute sites…only the pictures can tell the story of the Porter Sculpture Park (yes, that’s the world’s largest bull’s head, or so claimed).
Next stop…Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD, or as they call it the World’s Only Corn Palace. Ann wasn’t super psyched for our return trip (she was disappointed on the 2007 Odyssey upon learning the whole building wasn’t made of corn, just decorated with it), but at least this time it was the Corn Palace festival so there was at least a fair-like atmosphere. The theme this year was Transportation – through the years, complete with corn pictures of a Segway scooter and airplane on the front of the Palace. Ann was even less excited when she took Abby to the potty in the Corn Palace and through a never again reconstructable series of mousetrap type events Abby knocked her key out of her pocket in the air and into the auto flush toilet. Oh my. She saved them just before they were flushed and they are currently in quarantine until they can be properly disinfected.
The Corn Palace key incident was not event he funniest family event of the day…that would have to be Paul climbing into the back seat at 80 mph to calm 2 crying kids. See, the kids have both developed a strong preference for mommy to ride in the back in the oh-so-uncomfortable “jump seat” between their car seats. Getting to this spot is nearly impossible and requires a nimble maneuver we have begin to call the “downward facing mommy” — but today Ann was driving so Paul had to try the maneuver and it was really pretty hilarious.
Then we went to see the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre (pronounced PEER for reasons no one can explain). The Capitol was nice, but Pierre is really in the middle of nowhere. Apparently, however, the hotels do fill up on a Wednesday in the summer. Paul had read a description of Pierre as the country’s sleepiest Capitol — an apt description, except that there was no place for us to sleep.
So we drove on and ended up by default in a Days Inn in Murdo, SD (home to the only remaining original General Lee car, or so claimed). We aren’t very excited about our accommodations — especially after Paul had to remind us all that our room had to have been recently filled by bikers on their way from Sturgis. Thanks for that visual Paul. Breakfast is included though…served from the Chuck Wagon in the lobby (not kidding) so we have that to look forward to in the morning.
Preview of tomorrow: we will stop at the #1 roadside attraction in America. Or so they claim.
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