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In 2008, I did a 7000km road trip up through the Yukon and crossed and camped north of the Arctic Circle. Best rental car deal of the century. The north captures you and overwhelms you in a way that can’t be matched. It’s one thing to feel tiny in some of the largest cities in the world and it’s another altogether to feel tiny in the north. Desolate takes on a whole new meaning. The trip with Poncho gave me a new appreciation for parts of Canada that are much less travelled. We spent three days on The Dempster Highway (a 500+km gravel highway that goes through the north part of the Yukon and into the NWT). The whole three days, we saw three other people, an older couple who were also camping and a semi heading south. The sun hardly set during the trip, so we made the best of all of the hours in the day by doing things like crazy hikes in grizzly territory over a random glacier, attempting to raft down the Yukon River in a Canadian Tire special raft, which almost ended our lives after going through a culvert (which was one of the most exhilarating 45 seconds of my life until the raft spilled us).  We explored semi ghost towns, hot springs and did the famous “sour toe cocktail” drink in Dawson City. Real human toe in a shot of whiskey!

Back to the north I go but not in Canada this time. Iceland has been on my list for a long time and in June, I’ll be hitting the ground running. Some of my greatest adventures to date are in the works right now and this is taking it to a whole new level, even for me. I will be crossing the Arctic Circle for the second time and have a good chance of seeing puffins again! I have some dives planned that take you to a place on earth where the american and european tectonic plates meet and you can dive under the shelves and touch both plates at the same time. New certificate for the wall!

Luckily the flights depart from Halifax so the whole thing couldn’t be more perfect if I tried.

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