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  • From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Who's Da Best, now derision of politicians
  • Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:55:55 -0500

bob ford wrote:
Sounds like you have had high adventure. If you lived in alaska, you probaly said when I was
away from list. I thought you were Indiana?, Virginia, now Maine. (I still think "Stephen
King" every time I write "Maine" ....bobford
I didn't live in Alaska, but if you live in the far north, you get around. As cargo, sometimes, on the way to wherever before it's your turn to get out. We lived for several years along the MacKenzie River, near Norman Wells, in the Northwest Territories.

Bush planes were the scariest part of living up there, scarier than long dark winters, or wind, or cold, or isolation......those guys fly the shakiest craft believable and don't think too much of putting down 760 miles from nowhere, tinkering around for a while in -30 temps, saying "That might do it", clambering back in and taking off. I never did get used to it and preferred to just stay home until the ice was off the river and go on the barge or a boat to/from Yellowknife. Chicken to the core. And I don't even like boats or being on the water, but it was better than those planes rattling so bad sometimes you couldn't hear the pilot shouting at you. You would just swear they were in imminent danger of coming apart in the next 3 minutes. The scenery is spectacular, though, no doubt about that, and from the air.....inspires actual awe, not what the kids call awe.

Now there are better radios and cellphones in some places, plus snowmobiles, so that would take some of the scare out of flying up there, but the guys who fly those planes don't sound like they have changed, from what I hear from those who are still up there. You want tough, those guys are tough. Me, not that interested in that kind of tough. :-)

SJ




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