I spent the
entire day yesterday, creating a chart that compares events & festivals in 6 Northern communities… Yellowknife (of course), Hay River (YK’s neighbour across the lake) & Inuvik in NWT, Whitehorse & Dawson City in the Yukon & Skagway Alaska. The
entire day & evening, and i’m not even half finished! Haven’t even
looked at Skagway (just a 3 hour drive from Whitehorse) yet! Oh, so much fun is to be had up North!
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| Can Can @ Sourdough Rendezvous! |
My reasoning? Well, there are
so many great communities up there, and i want to live in them
all, but can’t really do that, can i? ...Can i? But maybe i can live in at least
one more… Maybe the one i originally had planned on moving to in the first place? Whitehorse. To be able to kill two birds with one stone (urgh, what a nasty saying, but it applies well… live in two cities in one year) would be wonderful! Maybe then my Northern Yearning Heart will be satiated then, and i can go on with my life & get on the road & see the rest of the continent! I mean, i can just see it... After a year in Yellowknife, saying OK, now a year in Whitehorse! Oo! OO! Then a year in Dawson City!!
Well anyway... on with the events. The only ART Events i found though, was one in Inuvik in July, and Dawson City in August. And speaking of Dawson City… whoa, do they ever have a lot of events! :-) I would love to live in that quaint Gold Rush 1880’s town! Although, there are so many of these festival & events
all over, that i would love to go to! ... Yup.. found one in Nunavut as well...
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| Burning Away the Winter Blues |
I think that’s what i’m going to do with this blog for the next little while... Post festivals around the North that i wish i could be at. ‘Yukon Quest’, the dog sled race from Whitehorse to Fairbanks Alaska just finished last week or so. The “Yukon Sourdough Rendezvous” (in Whitehorse) is starting right about now, so that one will be first. Then the ‘Burning Away the Winter Blues’ (sort of like a mini Burning Man... how wonderful is that?? OH i want to go to that one SO badly!!), next month, also in Whitehorse. The Snowking Festival & Caribou Carnival (with Ice Castle and all!) is next month in Yellowknife...
*sigh* I wish i could be there...
Anyway, so seeing i have no life right now and obviously too much time on my hands to kill... i started this new version of my Northern blog. The other one’s name was life-in-yellowknife, and seeing i’m hoping to expand my experience of the North a tad, i thought a more all-encompassing version would be more suitable, before the Yellowknife one got too big to transfer all the posts.
Now i’m free to sing the praises of the
entire Great White North! :-D
3 comments:
There is so much to do in so many places if only we look. I have Facebook friends in and near Dawson Creek and would love to visit that area.
@Bug... Dawson Creek... isn't that in northeastern BC? We DO live in a wonderful province, don't we? :-)
Dawson City is in the Yukon... a gold rush town! Both Murray & i CAN'T WAIT to go there! Such history! I mean, they still have wooden sidewalks with dirt roads, and a saloon with can can dancers!! :-)
That and Skagway! I'm fascinated by the gold rush & the incredible hardships the wannabe miners had to go through to get from Skagway to Dawson City! Just amazing!!
Yep, it is in the Peace, and I knew that but I was talking about me! Dawson Creek is Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway and I've always wanted to drive that as well as see other gold rush towns. Our little town is one, you know. Hard to believe now, in its heyday it was the largest town west of Chicago. Our Main Street was called The Golden Mile for all the gold dust scattered on it. It's also Mile 0 of the Cariboo Wagon Trail from which places like 100 Mile House are measured.
When we were in Alaska I was most amazed to see just how narrow the Chilkoot Trail is. It was hard to imagine how fortune seekers travelled it in deep snow--it looked treacherous without snow. No wonder so many perished.
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