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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

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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