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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Who's Da Best, now derision of politicians
  • Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 16:01:14 -0800 (PST)

How were you allowed to live in Canada? Can a person just drive to the
Northwest Territories and live ? I wouldn't mind if there is a part without
much snow and not too cold :-) ....bobf


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--- On Wed, 11/5/08, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:

> From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] was Who's Da Best, now derision of politicians
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 4:55 PM
> 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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