Go north!

Well, I'm back up in the bush. The trip up was interesting; highway 102 (which goes north from La Ronge) is in somewhat rough shape from all the rain that's been coming down, so I had to take that portion of our trip a little slower than usual. My co-worker Mary picked me up this morning, and will be heading back to Saskatoon tomorrow with a different truck that came up a few days ago.

I will be up in the bush now for about three weeks, then I get a week break, and after that will be here until the end of August before I head to Sudbury for a couple of weeks to take my first class towards my M.Sc. in Mineral Exploration.

Let me tell you, very nice having internet access in the bush. Up until this summer, we have been able to e-mail over sat-phones, but you have to keep the file size down, and actually loading a web-page is virtually impossible. Think slow, unreliable dial-up that is prohibitively expensive.

So, this means that you all won't be free of me this summer, even if I'm not around in person. Now you can never escape...unless you, I don't know, turn off the computer, go outside and enjoy some fresh-air and exercise.