Another box checked.

When I was in the fifth grade and brother Bert in the third, we won a rope-climbing competition. The prizes were a world history textbook and a world geography textbook.
I developed a fascination with Great Slave Lake, the city of Yellowknife, the Metis, Hudson Bay Company, the Arctic shield... The whole thing.
Today,Skip and I wandered around old town, ate at a restaurant established during the gold boom of the 1930s. We motorbiked north and east where thousands of lakes dot the hulking granite and gneiss outcroppings.
Beautiful day...64 degrees, sunny. And a part of the world I've waited almost 60 years to see.