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Well life in the Arctic is proving to be much more fun and active than I expected at first, especially now in the winter because I imagine that when there is 30 degrees below zero with a wind chill of 40 by the wind and snow flying everywhere, no one would have no desire or energy to make any outdoor activity. But as has happened on several occasions, I was wrong, and if you know the right people not only you got the opportunity to perform various activities in and outside but the vast majority can reach be 100% free! And we all know how much I like that word jijijiji. WORK

But first the boring work. In coffee everything is going nice, thank God that moved and people are happy. Every morning we make about 100 sandwiches that sell for $ 9.25, and I know that sounds expensive but the food prices in Inuvik are a bit exorbitant, especially when the route is closed because they are either building the path of ice or waiting to melt, because when that happens, the food prices going up, especially things like fruits, vegetables and milk must come by air, such as a lettuce can cost $ 8.00 or more, 2 kg of carrots $ 7.00, 2 liters of milk $ 9.50, 1 kg of cheese $ 25.00. So what we charge for our sandwiches or other products is not so much in relation to what our costs. We also sell cookies, cinnamon rolls, cakes, breads (that everyone congratulated me because here there is not really a bakery jjijijij) coffee and much, much, much more elaborate filter and only because we the people cappuccino machine. While we have the same problem I've had in all the jobs I've had here in Canada, the staff sucks !!!!! Anyway we are working to improve that part, not because they are so bad but there is not much room for improvement. But for now is good because I'm doing what I want when I want and how I want and Debbie tells me nothing jijijiji. So if all goes as so far I think a few months left to enjoy the arctic to the full and to make me some capital to continue the journey to the truth I'm finding much more expensive than originally planned.

And now the fun part, cold but fun ....

DOG SLED

Thanks to the people of the coffee was to ride a dog sled. An activity that today is almost extinct as part of daily life for the people but which is a great attraction for tourists and some fans do it for fun.

This technical issue was with coffee machines, Steve, whom we dubbed "coffee machine guy" (man from the coffee machines) and that he is in Calgary and wanted to experience the north. So we went to a hotel called Arctic Chalet, which is run by a very nice couple, and have very few staff and volunteers to handle dogs and rooms, as they have like 40 dogs who give their work, in addition to must maintain the rooms, the ways dogs and do the same to keep the place operating. As crazy with all that the owner of the place grew in Montevideo, Uruguay until the age of 12 years and still goes to visit from time to time and even has a wall in the hotel where they have things in Uruguay, also she is German, I think, and why
grew Uruguay is because his father is a senior in the Adventist Church.

Steve with his outfit Arctic

Louise

giving me directions

My instructions ....

bored dogs waiting ....

With Mo, my boss, it is noteworthy that the two are standing, if the veteran is very petite jijijij

Well let the action, after an hour of instructions and explanations how to stop or slow down or all the precautions to be taken not to overturn or so dogs do not fight or turn right or left, and many other important things to avoid damaging the equipment or injure dogs. It is also good because they gave us clothes for everything seem more authentic.

And there we go, starting all quiet, dogs with great force and wanted to run, and is the principle that you got the opportunity to make your dog turn left or right, by inertia dogs tend to go straight but if you apply the brakes just enough to slow down Chi running and screaming (to turn right) and Cha (to turn left) at the various intersections that are on the roads that are marked on the frozen lake you manage to change lanes, which is more complicated than it sounds, but not impossible, it took me a couple of tries but I managed to make a couple of turns but turned out pretty well. Because these dogs are not bred to run are not going very fast but they are very strong and even with the brake fully beware because if you're not careful you start and stop jjijijij ass in the snow. The other interesting fact is that when you try to bend and dogs do not want to hear what punishment is used as the brake, because it gave us jjijijij whips, because what the dogs want is to run and go fast, but if you stop all they know they did something wrong, which I found quite interesting.

Me and Steve ready to go

Ready for action

Last-Minute

And now if we go ... ..

Nanuk

Juno, Akla

I do not remember the names of the last two dogs

All dogs my sled

Hanging out with the sleds

And so we as an hour to approximately 9 km of journey, with ups and downs and some half dangerous curves, some more than others and that all falling from novice end of the sleds, but nobody lost dogs. Since one of the recommendations they gave us was that if we felt that we would not wear down the sled dogs with us so were not without us. My problem was that when I was falling, to try to stop for a curve that was steeper than I had originally thought, I'm clinging to the sled but it takes me I fall and that's uglier than a pine tree coming straight at me head so I said go and snap dog sled and pull me in the snow just before the tree, but the jolt pickup because I gave the sled when the anchor broke loose and anchored to the sled so when willing to take me up to see dogs that were there "waiting" jijijiji. The detail was that I had been given two pairs of mittens, a normal size and the other as seen in the pictures a little biggie, but when I buried in the snow mittens lost big in the rush to grab the dogs and me and realized I just realized as 500 meters when we stopped to take pictures, thank god we came back Louise, a girl from Ireland, and raise the mototrieno mittens for me, she was in the rear in case someone fell or anything that might happen.

With Nanuk on a break, no, I'm not choking

I think the photos speak for themselves ....

Saving Alka

The journey lasted 2 hours enter the training and travel and cost $ 125 plus $ 20 for the pictures because we were not allowed to take photos during the trip because they wanted that we handle the sled with one hand, and to do a little more than jijiji silver. But the fact that the experience was worth it.

I, Sachi and Steve with the puppies

MOTO SLED

Another activity that is very good is exit mototrieno, although a little more dangerous in my case because as everyone knows I'm not a great driver jjijijij, but both times they leave and come unscathed although there is a risk that goes beyond the ability to manage, and cold as it is quite common that you freeze the fingers or toes or nose or cheek if you do not have care and how much cold is a matter of seconds which is more dangerous still, because it hurts a little but then do not feel anything anymore not that you have passed the cold but will freeze while lost all sensitivity, I freeze the nose twice and the second time I left a mark like I've been sunburned, so now I'm putting vitamin E in nose to see if I can recover the skin and tissues and that the more the freeze are more likely to freeze or get sunburned. And the toes also have chilled me enough but not both, the issue is that the boots I have for the cold but say they are up to 40 degrees below zero, the first is not as good as they should and the second one never said he had to remove the inside to dry between uses because the feet sweat enough moisture accumulates and then freezes faster jijijiji, to tell them that on the second trip we stopped at a cabin that is Debbie (my boss ) and we were near the stove with Raold (Debbie's son) who is always out with me and when remove the inside of the boot was covered in ice much moisture that had jijijiji. Raold were killed with laughter and could not believe that my feet were not fully frozen. The good thing was that we dried in the oven and now are a little better hehehe.

The photos of the bike sled adventures in the winter because I fully there is plenty of light, and 3 weeks ago we do not see the sun directly, and missing another 10 days for the sun slowly start to show their brightness directly above the horizon, so the photo opportunities are limited, but spring will come with many hours of sunshine and plenty of snow to play so they will have their photos to their due course, by now with what's confórmense jjijijij.

Video of my bike riding a sled, but in the absence of light is more of an audio ....

ICE SKATING

After more than two years in Canada someone finally fulfilled their civic duty and took me to a skating rink, and even better because here in Inuvik is free !!!!. The funny thing is that all who learn to skate I do not know me always say I'm going to go and I'm going to teach but until recently had only been stories .... But now I'm almost a professional jijiji, better I am not very enlarged but at least I've improved a lot.

The first day was the funniest, not only by the blows that were not few, but because at the time that is free is when all children leave school and also give you free skate is a lot People skiing. And as expected I was the attraction of the day. Gurises poor could not understand how big a person could not skate, because I had grabbed a device that is as a walker to help you learn, but only children use, because Canadians learn to ski before walking, then many large never skate again, but it's like riding a bike never forget.

So I spend all the time you open the door, surrounded by Gurises harass me any more evil questions and I wanted to steal the walker. The second day, even with my walker, but with more confidence, could move with some speed but the braking and cost a lot but still double what had changed was the astonishment of the Gurises about my person, many have no idea where I am, or in other countries there is no snow or ice 8 months a year, but as I walked more confident we played tag, but I was the most wanted and then could not spot anyone jijijiji was fun.

The little girls could not believe it, an adult using the walker

My first "steps" in the ice

Jordan giving me some instructions

Asian Louise and Cat

The practice makes perfect

Whose legs are those crooked??

Simone

Jordan

Me and my walker

Day in the ice

But the best part was that during the winter holidays are here during the holidays when we went to skate, we find that there was not a single child in the door, so we had the track just for us and we killed the laughter clowning around, well the Gurises were killed with laughter because I had abandoned my walker , went against the boards, well slowly trying not to break any bones. Because when you fall instead of snow, ice is very hard, I have all bruised left elbow and I appreciate the fact of being Latino and having a good ass because it helps absorb the impact jjijijij.

Jordan, Louise, Andrew and Asian Cat, doing the little train

advantage we had the whole track to ourselves ... .

First day without the walker

SLIDES SLIDES IN

Another of the many activities in the Arctic, although common in Canada, or where a little snow and a slope is sliding in slides, but slides are not a playground, are basically pieces of plastic in different ways in which you sit or kneel and you jump in a snowy slope trying to maintain a constant direction and not kill in the attempt to reach the final jijiji.

The thing is going down fast and the bigger the slope better, but then you have to walk up the steep slope that jjijijij tired.

Fortunately, many of us and always enjoyed this activity becomes fun, by the blows and blows and for different techniques we use to go down, the most common being seated, but some are braver back, also happens to go back against their will, or head or knees and has even been attempts to go unemployed, they never get very away. Also accidents while some have been painful are fun. And this activity presents a great opportunity to relieve any kind of violence we feel toward another person because even without trying to hit it a kick in the face of Asian Cat in one of the many downs that we did together jijiji. She actually hit my boot to his face after a short break in which she went flying and landed in front of the slide which continued its course at high speed and then me and I shot my leg moved and hit him in the face but were no marks or blood came out so it was not so serious jjijijij.

Jordan and Simone

Simone, me and Andrew

Jenel, Pinette, Asian Cat, Hippie Cat, Andrew, Jordan and Simone

FOOD

An activity which I never tire coupled to make meals, opportunities abound to us because many people do not do much at night because it is so cold, they have no idea what they're missing, so every few days are an excuse to get together in someone's house and eating food either rain or someone wants to show their culinary skills.

Much to tell about a meal there as it would be very wicked of me to describe everything we've eaten well be very long for the blog, but I upload a few photos ate sushi once to see what they're missing and also a very funny video of another meal we had in the latest evolution Sachi, knows how to make noise Mario Bros with his nose and had to volunteer doing Pinette show the jump. Believe it or not, we spend half an hour trying to learn how to make noise and laughing and most were sober jijiji

Sachi making noise Pinette Mario Bros and hop miming

Aki, Sachi, Louise, Jiri Adam, Pinette, Genevive Asian enjoying the sushi that we did

Cat

Special Order

Louise who does not like seaweed

SKIRUN CROSS COUNTRY

And the last activity that I will put in this article I learned to ski cross country.

Although I had already tried my luck skiing down several times, both in Canada and New Zealand. This new style is very different. Nomas entry boots are different because they only reach your ankles do not like going downhill half of the tap. And the only cross-country skis attach to the front.

The idea is to move is to push yourself with a ski and glide to the other and so on to make progress. It is very difficult to say but I will not deny that there were several blows and still are but they are becoming less and mostly when I try to go faster that my legs can move. I also note that the first 2 days to try skiing, I did not put the seedlings in the boots and it made me fell much more than normal. But as soon as I realized that my legs were crooked playing against me, much better, but neither is it so good.

Pinette and Louise after a night of skiing

But I really really enjoy, and despite the intense cold with high physical activity that involves cross-country skiing, the truth does not really cold.

So far it has been cooler than when we were skiing was 38 degrees below zero, but despite being covered with ice as you will see in the pictures, we do not cold, the secret is not to stop moving jijijijij.

Skiing in light of the moon

One stop to rest, but not for long because there were 38 degrees below zero

Sachi

Back after 2 hours skiing with 38 below zero

Barbas or ice??

Ice

up the tabs, but not cold

beard .... Melting

Well excuse the delay and I'm going to put to work in the following article on the holidays and the first weeks of the year because I discovered a new activity to pass over time and now I have the weekends free so I have more time to explore the Arctic.

Thanks for reading

Juan

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Activities Coming to Edmonton and first days in Inuvik

Reach Montreal around noon and went to meet with Evan, who kindly let me pass night at home, as it had not bathed since the Larry and Lucile house, the first thing I did was take a bath, and after that began to speak while I was teaching him how to make homemade pasta. While we were catching up I remembered that Diego had told him that I would buy a kg of grass that Montreal is a shop called "English Bookstore" and typical products sold in Latin America. So buy 10 kg of grass, a bit of quince is amazing but no one here knows what it is and I could not buy Faina because they had more.

Back to Evan's house, he invited me to go to a party at a house en donde él y su banda, ya que Evan estudia contrabajo y bajo en la universidad de McGill en Montreal, iban a tocar esa noche. Como estaba cansado y el lugar donde iban a tocar no era lejos de la casa de Evan, yo me quede poniéndome al día con mis mails y con el blog y ellos se fueron temprano a armar las cosas para el toque y quedaron de avisarme cuando estuvieran a punto de tocar. Así que a eso de la media noche me llega un mensaje de texto y me fui a la mencionada fiesta. Como me había dicho el lugar no fue difícil de encontrar porque la música era tan alta que se escuchaba de media cuadra a la distancia. La fiesta era en un apartamento en el tercer piso, y cuando llegue había por lo menos 120 personas stuck in the apartment, from which came a smell of beer, cigarettes and marijuana than Mommy, but I would not turn so I got there, tucked in a corner there were Evan and his band playing a sort of Jazz / Hip Hop and even had a vocalist but I do not understand a word the rest of us encouraged and kept pace with the music. But it took 10 minutes to reach the police party came !!!!!! Given the high volume of music from the apartment owners had to pay a fine of $ 500 and the party ended just like that, luckily, the police entered the house and did not stop anybody, just made sure that partygoers were removed in order even if the house owners were asking everyone to leave for about 10 minutes because it was so much noise from people who no one heard anything and I think more than one was afraid to leave home fear that the review and find some illegal substance, I for my part, I stay with teams Evan disarming and went quiet after the police left.

The next morning, after breakfast I continued to travel to the West, Gatineau next destination, hoping that this time I was going to be lockout a week as the first visit to that city. Again Diego and his family welcomed me with open arms and we punished again with a delicious barbecue. After several hours of talk went on tour trying to put as many miles as I could in the day as from Dartmouth to Edmonton, there are nearly 5 000 km and had only 1500 tour ... so I stayed at least 3 days long trip when everything went well and I put up with driving 12 hours a day.

Diego

grill

Asad!!

The rest of the trip passed without much to note, many hours of travel, lots of dry food and quick to prepare in order to put the most hours per day. The I do include the return trip to Edmonton is that he has turned around kms, the great unknown is how many laps as before .... I hope this is the first jijijiji. And I have to thank Diego because when you pass by his house back I sold an external hard drive to your computer with many films and documentaries (for the winter in the Arctic) as well as audio books that were of great help to kill travel times because as I am not listening to music or radio as I spend 12 hours bored of watching the road. For those who have downtime, I recommend investigating the matter because the truth is good, I listen 2 books which I recommend the book called "The Ominivore Dilemma" (The Omnivore's Dilemma).

Video on Route 11 in Ontario are about to give back to the account kms.

Km 000000 in the van

Many ducks in a harvested corn field in the province of Saskatechawn

Arrive Edmonton on Thursday night and went to the home of Crystal and Earl, a must when I'm in the area and leave them some boxes to look after me while I'm in the Arctic, I contacted with Cody, the mechanic, who I will care for the truck and take the chance to fix some minor problems when you return to the route next year and I also got in touch with the Edmonton Leos that I had planned an epic days for Saturday.

So Friday I went and let the truck in Cody, after accommodating all in the back and assemble the bags to come to me for Inuvik, hence Cody took me to Edmonton to prepare for Saturday.

But I have to stop the story and tell what until now has been the most bizarre event of the trip. When they were on the road heading to the Cody house I was in a construction zone so it had formed a long line of cars as one of the two-lane road was closed. Traveling at a speed average of 10 km per hour I see the driver of a truck that was in the right lane motioned me to come down the window, and I did, and the driver asked me for my trip, it appears that had seen the map of the driver's side and some kms before we started to talk about my trip while traffic was moving slowly, after a couple of minutes this man (and he never asked for the name) asked me "want a cookie to water ????" as if it were the normal thing, and as you can imagine I say yes, so I see him stretching his arm towards the back of the truck and I realize that the entire back of his van was full of boxes of cookies into the water and grabbing a package that keeps me scream online truck he I pulled the cookies out the window and flew 2 boxes in the van I wonder if he jijijijij training. But as the lane in which he was moving faster call me "lucky!" And continued their journey. I could not believe what crazy event and killed me with laughter but that did not end the issue of cookies because I see half miles later the van stopped at the point where the two rails are joined as I get there I see I had 3 boxes with 16 packs of cookies each and asked me if I wanted more, I had time to respond when I see three boxes come through my window and just before leaving he says, are cool so I'll last at least a year and went back to his vehicle. As an extra for this bizarre episode of the journey, I see this man a few kms further on and I took a picture with his cell phone and was never to see him again ... ... So glad to go !!!!!!

and arrived on Saturday morning, day epic with the Leos, the slogan, eat until you drop! But I start with an advantage because I found Mo (the Coffee veteran) who was in Edmonton because they went on vacation to Antarctica, if it is crazy to go on vacation north pole to south pole? But hey says penguin loves it here and there, and we had a coffee and we caught up, from there walk one hour to time and I met with the Leos for breakfast and began operating to eat, I ate 2 pancakes , 2 eggs, bacon, potatoes, toast and all this coffee, I can say that it is full all day with that food, but the slogan was established and not going to leave after a meal, so that's where we to distribute leaflets for a book I read, as the day of Halloween were to collect non-perishable food to donate the houses to the Edmonton Food Bank, the campaign is organized by the bank and look for organizations like the Leos to travel to different parts of the city, the bell is called "trick or eat" (trick or food). After another hour of walking we were having lunch Vietnamese food, for me it was rice with pork chops, but most ate a very spicy soup which I tried and I let his tongue on fire even though I said it was not very spicy jijijiji. The vast majority of Canadians believe that because I'm from Latin America like to eat spicy all the fault of Mexicans jijijiji.

Danny, Look, Jenny, Jenny's boyfriend, Ban, Jo and I had breakfast in the epic days

I can say that after lunch to finish with great difficulty, is extremely full and there was still dinner ... .. at that point was 2 pm and dinner was marked for 6 30. So we went to West Edmonton Mall, the world's largest shopping, walk a while and I take advantage and I drink a chamomile tea to help digestion, the detail is that most people only joined us in one or Danny only 2 meals, Mira and I made all day. After a few hours at the mall we went to dinner, I tell them it was full but on principle would not overlook the dinner, but knew that in Inuvik eating out is out of question because first the food is super expensive and super bad is second in quality except coffee jijijiji quality is good, and so I found myself in a place called fat burger (hamburger fat) where all the food is super heat, to the point where you can eat a meal of 2000 kcal a day jjijijij required. My dinner was a classic burger with onion rings and a milk shake which was delicious cookie oreos.

Sunday October 24, at 5 am I got up to wait for the bus to the airport, still wearing my shorts though that temperatures had dropped enough and while waiting for the bus began to snow, first snow of the year in Edmonton and I come to get me in shorts .... But it was good and compared well with what I have now lived in the Arctic was almost a beach day hehehe.

The flight was pretty normal, I slept most of the trip but had a little baby that was passed by playing on their Nintendo with the tune that broke the balls and when you finish the battery began to play with skateboard toy, to more noise still ... ..

funniest thing on the return flight was that when I get to Inuvik, I realized that no was the only one who had bought donuts from Tim Hortons at the airport, as more than half of the passengers was carrying the same boxes jjijijij.

airport in Jordan waiting for me who took me to his house again and after a while I was catching up to the cafe to organize my Monday and I had to start working ...

The first week in Inuvik I move fast because between work and parties at night at the home of people who came to eat not leave me much time, further that Jordan was organizing everything to the Halloween party was taking place at my house Saturday night, one of many parties that were in the city that night. I was not happy with having people at home it was obvious he was going to re going to get drunk and fuck all night and I was not going to sleep .... But hey could not say no because I could sleep until Sunday afternoon. But I have to say I was wrong, the party was pretty good, many people dressed up and seriously talk about costumes, and the atmosphere was good, until they began to play a game called "flip cup" (turning the glass) . The idea of \u200b\u200bthe game is two teams of equal number of competing players, each player has a glass with a couple of inches of alcoholic beverage which has to quickly take and then put the glass on the edge of the table and hitting him on the basis it has to land face down on the table, where does this next player on his team repeated the same action until all players make the first team on turning all the vessels wins and the losing team has to drink again. Purpose of the game drunk very quickly. Result I went to my room to watch TV jijijiji.

Liz and John dressed as the queen of hearts and the hat from the movie Alice in Wonderland by Tim Burtons, they won best costume at the bar!

Cat Liz, John, Brian and Corine

Jordan explaining how to play the famous "flip cup"

After several rounds of "flip cup"

Asian Cat and Constance

But after a couple of hours many people went to different bars where there was competition for party costumes and calmed down a bit. Then I reappeared on the scene and as we were only a few had a great time.

the Sunday after Halloween, we went to Oscar and Asian Cat, walking. With a temperature of 15 degrees below zero to a viewpoint that we are in a parque a un par de kms de Inuvik. Desde el cual saque unas fotos durante mis primeros días en el verano. Se podrán imaginar que las vistas han cambiado mucho pero la caminata valió le pena. Yo iba con mi campera para invierno que me compre en Edmonton antes de salir y que me salió $283 dólares pero que la verdad valió la pena porque de tan buena que es hice toda la caminata que termino siendo de como 2 horas con la campera abierta porque si no me daba calor. De regreso a Inuvik desde el parque un zorro ártico nos acompañó durante un rato, pero estaba medio lejos y no pude lograr una buena foto.

En el camino del Lago Boot

View from the gazebo in the park Jac

Trying to find a shortcut to return to Inuvik

Inuvik

View

In the center is the arctic fox

And now that's it, I mean what I have done in Inuvik but what I will tell in this article, because in the next I'll tell you of my other activities such as, riding a bike sled dog sled, plastic sled on a slope overlooking a frozen lake ice skating, cross-country skiing and other things that I've been learning in Inuvik, so I hope you have time and energy to go that soon.

Thanks for reading

Juan