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I’m working the new job this week, I’m two days in now. It is going quite well, I think, but at the end of the day I’m exhausted. Hence a lack of my side projects like writing.
So without to much talking here are some photos I took from my drive from Fort St. John to Yellowknife.
Alright here I am on a plane again less than a month since the last time I traveled. Man I seem to be getting around these day. This time I’m headed to Yellowknife, but let’s back that up for a second.
My first flight was out of Grande Prairie and originally I was going to get up really early in Fort St John and drive to Grande Prairie, but then the Twitter Folk of #GPAB planned a Tweetup the night before so I decided I wanted to attended. Then that plan went from just me going to Andrew and Brent going as well. So we left early in the day and spent perusing Grande Prairie.
The Tweetup was a good turn out I think, about 15 people in attendance at Original Joes. I have some photos, but they are still on my iPhone.
So then after a night of waking every hour in the Motel6 and feeling sick this morning, I’m in the row with the emergency exit on the plane with no one beside me.
Once I land in Calgary I will have a hour and a half layover before I jump on another Air Canada flight to Yellowknife. As an added bonus, I’m feeling better after I got some Ginger ale in me.
8am is the time, and the Grande Prairie airport is the place. The drive from Fort St John is only 2 hours, but when road conditions are slightly unknown, you tend to plan for a large margin of error. So here I sit with an hour and a half wait until my flight boards.
I am flying Air Canada to Yellowknife, which is normal for me, as they seem to be the only ones who offer decent points flights. My first stop on this 3 flight adventure is Edmonton. Nothing exciting about this little jaunt at all. Us passengers all pile into a little Dash 8 and take off for an hour long flight. Because this flight is so, lets say, cramped I only listen to Podcasts. I don’t think there is room for me to to try and pull out the iPad let alone the MacBook Air.
As for my bag, well let me just say I am the worlds worst packer for flying. I always, always, pack to much and think I need more than I do. I was able to pick up a a large duffle bag in Jasper last weekend while there which is able to hold everything I packed. Where the dilemma comes in, is the weight. My bag weighed in a 57lbs. Which is 7lbs over the limit. I was under the impression that the overage fee was $30 for some reason. Well I was wrong. The overage fee is $75, HELLO. As I didn’t have a second bag to put some stuff in, as you are aloud two bag, I ended up taking out the MacBook Pro and just carrying it. Doing this brought the bag down to 48lbs. Now I’m going to be boarding my flight with two laptops and a iPad. Yes this is a little excessive and really just takes away from the whole light and easy to carry aspect of the Air and iPad. All is good though as I sit and wait.
It is good to be early I suppose. As I anxiously sit here and think about it. I rather be bored waiting to leave than rushing to catch the flight feeling panicked.
Yesterday we were at the Dawson Creek Fair and Rodeo, where I took tons of photos. So when I get a chance I will upload them and display them.
Yesterday was also the start of the Road Trip, where I will be driving through the Rockies and Southern British Colombia. We drove to Grande Prairie from Dawson Creek late last night in order for my father to catch a flight back home early this morning. As he is now gone we will probably stick around GP for a couple hours and stop by some shops. Once we are done that we will head to Jasper, Alberta, which is a 395km drive. There we will spend the night and take in the sites.
Will try and update as often as possible, with pictures as well.
Hope everyone is having a great summer.
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.
