Back in action
Back in action after a long break from the internet up here in Nunavut and Greenland. We’ve been setting our course by the midnight sun and finding new stories.
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Dalvik, Iceland
(Post 1 of 2) We’ve been traveling across Iceland from one introduction to the next, and one of the threads ends here. We’ve been introduced, from one person to the next, all the way from #reykjavik to #akureyri. This path started at a sheep round up and led past the waterfalls and on to a…
Dreaming north, Lakefield, Ontario, Canada
Eating chocolate cake and studying my circumpolar map with author and adventurer James Raffan (Circling the Midnight Sun). We’re in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada for a literary festival but can’t stop scheming about #thenorth. “I’ve had a version of this map on the ceiling of my work space since 1975,” James said. “But the real map…
Giving gifts and family life in Svalbard
(Post 1 of 4) Welcome to World of Maps in my neighbourhood in Ottawa, Canada. I have bought maps here since I was a kid, and when I went in for a chart of Svalbard, the owners, Petra and Brad, told me they have been shipping merchandise up to the Longyearbyen museum for years. Aha!…
Longyearbyen, Svalbard
Some days . . . #meetthenorth is about northerners and northern life. Our goal is to get to know the Arctic through the people who live here by following their lead. We ask them who we need to meet and where we need to go. We listen and we act. Some days we’re in the…