Tonight, Skip Honeycutt and I are camped by Prelude Lake -- a great Territorial Park -- outside Yellowknife, the bustling capital of Northwest Territories.
At 10:30, it's so light out you can see all two jillion of the mosquitoes arguing over that last parking place on your arm. We're some hundreds of miles north of the 60th parallel.
The day started awful. We broke camp in the rain -- packing a wet tent, you will never do it as well as you did when you practiced in your back yard on a dry day.
We were wet and 48-degree cold until about 2 p.m. The mirror (left) on my bike broke loose... It's now attached with duct tape, reinforced with an 8 mm box end wrench.
We're 15 miles from town -- dinner came from the snack box at the park office. Ruffles chips and a can of Coke.
Notes:
-- the fine for littering in NWT is $1725.
-- they weren't kidding about Woods Buffalo; those huge critters love to find lunch on the highway right-of-way.
-- virtually every town in Canada offers a campground with spaces for tents and RVs, showers and -- in some -- laundry facilities.
-- it is not logical that there could be this many mosquitoes in one place.
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