The Website of Kyle Thomas (KyleWith)
I finally decided to try out making a video from my iPhone. I must say the video and audio quality is very good and if it weren’t for my own stupidity of recording it sideways it probably would have been great.
Anyways I’m here in East Pine, BC from a couple days. I will be heading to the Dawson Creek Rodeo tomorrow and then on to Grande Prairie and Jasper Monday.
I will trying and keep the updates coming.
This will be quick as I do not have the patients to write out an elaborate post tonight. So this will be more of a photo blog.
All packed and ready to go the night before.
At 5am Yellowknife look like it was going to be a nice day.
This was a neat photo I randomly caught crossing the bridge at Rae.
We saw lots of buffalo on the road, lots of which were just standing on the road.
There was still lots of bridge construction going on.
The ferry ride was uneventful. I think I have lived in the north to long.
The wee town of Grimshaw.
I normally try and take photos of the beautiful Dunvagan Valley but because the construction on the bridge, which I am fairly certain has been happening for 3 years now, I wanted to focus on driving.
This was our little set up in the Grande Prairie campground. I thought it was very redneck to have a lazy boy and computer chair set up outside.
I was always uncertain as to how much the bunk could hold. I think there was about 200lbs on it and it didn’t collapse on my brother so it must be decent.
We spent most of today in Grande Prairie shopping and skateboarding. We also drove over to Wembley to check out a new skatepark we were told about. I must say for a small farming town, it was a pretty nice.
Note* We got to Dawson as well today and I was able to get my apartment. I will put up another post with picture tomorrow.
Remember that Rough Plan I mentioned about a month ago, well that is completely wrong know. I’m actually leaving Yellowknife at 5am July 28. So this is my last night in Yellowknife for 10 months.
It has been a slice but I need to go explore a little more in order to remember why I live in Yellowknife.
Today I spent the entire day running around town and packing. This morning I finally decided it was probably a good idea to renew my insurance and ragistration so off I went. The insurance was easy, all I had to do was phone TD Trust and have them set it up. Getting the registration for my truck was a little longer process. After making sure I had all the proper papers and information (something a lot of people don’t do) I made my way to the DMV. Unfortunately I didn’t get as lucky as I use to be, there was about 20 people ahead of me. I grabbed my number tab and decided to kill some time by wondering the mall all the while checking the time to make sure I wasn’t too long. Once back at the DMV it was a quick 5 minute wait and I was out of there.
Once home I put my mind on packing. First I washed my truck so it was nice and clean in order to get dirty tomorrow, then I slowly started to strategically pack my desk, bed frame, bed, bins of clothes and other junk.
Finally here we are 10om and everything is packed. Picture will be up in a day or too.
I hope to update here every evening as to where I am and what I am doing so make sure to check back.
I feel like my mind is racing so fast that I can’t take the time to stop and blog about it. So I am going to try really hard here right at this moment to stay focused on writing this.
Couple things that I have been pondering and watching this morning are the development of YkOnline and the Blogathon that is happening in Vancouver as well as all over the world over the next 24 hours.
I will start this with YkOnline. It has yet to be written in stone as to what I want the site to be, although it does seem to be something. I have been watching several other “community” blogs trying to taken in how they are built and maintained. Ones such as BlogTO and Beyond Robson which are Fresh Daily blogs, Torontoist and The Coast. These are all well established sites, run by several people and catered to 100x more people than Yellowknife’s population. But I believe that someday soon with some dedication I can get the site to become not only a great site for locals but also a resourceful site for people researching about moving to Yellowknife. I’m facing some challenges as I have to leave the north for 8 months for school but I know in the long run it is a good thing and will only help with the site but in the mean time I don’t want it to die. I will have more details about YkOnline soon.
As for the Blogathon, this has got me excited. I absolutely love the idea. I’m watching a lot of Vancouver bloggers do it right now. Check it out at Blogathon.org and consider donating. What is happing, is several bloggers have gotten together (you don’t have to, but they have chosen to this time around) and will be blogging for 24 hours straight. They will each publish a post every 30 minutes about what ever they like. Each blogger has their own charities they are getting pledges for. Some of the bloggers are writing about their charities and why they are blogging for them, while others have themes to go off of.
My mind is flying with ideas and possibilities for a Yellowknife Blogathon. I am just imagining all the local bloggers getting together at Javaroma or some other local for 24 hours of blogging. Now I’m not sure if Yellowknife’s Bloggers get enough recognition but I still think it would be fun and worth it for the charities.
Got a comment or suggestion about either of these things. I would love to know.
Where have you been? Where Huh, because I have been lost in my own mess.
I began packing my room the other day for my move and it is slow going. As I am taking my massive desk I had to clean it out. That is what takes the time. I never know what to throw out and what to keep. Half the stuff in there I haven’t used for over a year. Eventually I got it cleaned out and now I’m in the process of taking it apart to pack.
Seems like every time I need to pack or get rid of stuff the mess just explodes. I go from having lots of floor space to instantly none.
I go back to work tonight so for the next 5 days so I will have limited time to pack everything. Talk about last minute. I will let you know how it goes.
