Day: 165

Almost Home

Temperature: 60F

Location: 100 Miles from Winnepeg

We are at a truck stop about 100 miles north of Winnipeg. It’s been a really long day. We left yesterday about 6 o’clock from Pond Inlet. It took us a couple of hour to load the plane with the dogs and all the gear. And then we took an almost six hour flight that took us to Thompson, Manitoba, which is the end of the road basically, about 500 miles north of Winnipeg. We arrived there at one a.m., and it took us a couple of hours to unload the plane and get everything in the trucks. We have a rented truck, and Paul’s diesel truck with the dog boxes on it, along with a large trailer. We stayed at a local hotel, and kept the dogs in their boxes after some feed and water.

We spent about five hours there sleeping, and took off again in the morning at about 8. We’ve been on the road all day. There was a lot of rain on the way down. We stopped and watered the dogs once and let them stretch out, and now we are refueling. It is about 7 p.m., and we will get a little dinner here and then get on the road again. The trucks will be heading straight to the homestead in Ely. We’ve had a long, long day so far, a lot of packing and unpacking, and when you are moving with dogs it is a lot of work.

But everybody is in good spirits and everybody wants to get home.