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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

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Nova Scotia Nova Scotia Part 2 Part

After dinner on Wednesday. I ask Larry and Lucile how to do to get lobster for dinner. I do not want to go to Nova Scotia without food so delicious fruits of the sea which is also considered a delicacy. And after several recommendations where to look and how to do, I said it was advisable to ask the cook at the store where purchased for if not the smell stays in the house for a few days and ultimately end up eating the cold so much that did not change the cook in the store or not.

But we had not finished speaking when Larry tells me, I will get, you go and enjoy your day and I buy lobsters for dinner, and was also a recommendation of them do not prepare anything more than a salad, that's how to eat lobster. Only with melted butter and some bread.

So on Thursday I went to visit the western part of Nova Scotia, went to the part where are given the highest tides in the world, but I explained that it is high in depth, but is much higher in the water up or down, depending if you are up or down obviously.

On the way to the beach Bloomidon, and as near the sea, I found that the vast majority of the channels through which flow the rivers were moist but not more than a trickle of water flowing in the background. This is because due to tidal forces, when they are at their peak, flood the river channel to be true about current tracing the course of the river for several miles, reversing the real flow of water in the process. That was the first sign the power of the Atlantic tides.

also on the way to the beach, go for a tourist spot apparently located at the top of the "north mountain" but that is so old that training is not very high but like the rest of the province is so flat and it is so at sea level appears to come upstairs you can see Mount Everest and many miles around. Again I found the red earth that was seen on Prince Edward Island.

Views from the "view" in the mountains north

Hence

I went to the beach, having no idea of \u200b\u200bwhether the tide was rising or falling. But as soon as you reach the park the truck facing the ocean while still some distance away, I realized that the tide was going out, because in less than 2 minutes I saw a rock emerging from the water. It was as if someone had pulled the plug from the ocean and in the cartoons, even from a distance you could see the water retreat, and then I remembered a comment from Larry, who told me that if you walk rather slowly, or never get to the water never go out of the water. I thought I was exaggerating a bit but it was unchanged.

But I was not going to get without going into the water, so I start walking, I must easily have walked 1 km or more to finally reach the water, but when it comes, the tide was rising, and it's amazing how fast it goes, in addition to small depressions in the ground, sometimes it seems that the water has not past the line where you are, but when you see back you find yourself in a small island.

Traces into the Atlantic at low tide had to walk an extra mile!!

So after a little video to appreciate the speed of change, I turned to the sea, or rather turned to the only output was to the beach because the beach was only accessible by a staircase because the surrounding cliffs were too big to go otherwise.

Barrancas on the beach Bloomidon

After leaving the tides back, I went to another part of the coast, a little town called Northerville, small fishing village, where the port to be still low tide, it seemed that they had been built far from water by mistake, as the boats were tied up but they were buried in the mud at the bottom of the bay such as 4 meters or more below the level of the port.

Low tide at the port of Northerville

Views in Norhterville

After photographing the people, I went to a historical site called Grand Pre which is famous because at some point in Canadian history, threw out all the French who would not swear allegiance to the British crown, transporting them to the U.S. or France and forbidding el regreso, aunque muchos regresaron unos años después, otros nunca regresaron y algunos hasta lograron quedarse sin ser deportados.

Tras una visita rápida, porque no había mucho para ver ya que eran todas cosas arqueológicas cerradas al público y lo único que podías ver eran fotos y dibujos de cómo se supone era la vida en aquella época, lo único que había abierto al público es una iglesia que reconstruyeron basados en los documentos del sitio. En si un embole, menos mas que no pague entrada porque si no me iba a enojar jijijiji.

Estatua en Gran Pre

Y de then I returned to Dartmouth, but I went with a companion for on the way from Northville to Grand Pre had risen to a veteran who was hitchhiking on the road and leave it on the main road to go to Halifax when I went to Grand Pre, but I found it again not far from where I left off and bring it up near the exit to Halifax where I was able to find someone to take him because the poor veteran could not with the legs hehehe. To say that I like 1 minute into the truck and accommodated in the seat, luckily I had no trouble either.

Once the home of Larry and Lucile, came the big moment to savor a delicious lobster Atlantic. But with Larry decided to wait for Lucile came to work for dinner together. When the hour of dinner we prepare for the feast, because eating lobster is a science. First

precise tweezers to break the claws of the lobster, some little things that seem metal toothpick to remove every last piece of flesh from the shell, large plastic bag to put the remains, many napkins to wipe the enchastre hands of the dish with melted butter for dipping the meat as you're going to remove from the shell and of course the coveted lobsters.

The idea was to get some pictures of how to eat lobster but it was both enchastre that will have to be limited to a very basic description of such a delicious dinner.

lobsters for dinner for my birthday

First you start the tongs, then each of the other legs, having done that proceeds from the lobster in half. Once everything is in parts, removed the shell of the front and find some meat to what would be the ribs, although the size of the lobster is not too big not much to take from there, after Take the meat, it continues with the legs, to which you take out the flesh and sucking biting on the outside to make up the meat until the opening is left of where they were attached to the body, but very tasty little meat. After the biggest job for the least amount of meat, but with the aim of not wasting anything, proceeded with the tongs, more flesh here and there but be careful to break them with pliers or a nutcracker, otherwise care you got me you're like me to cut the big toe, meat tongs is larger and already gives to dip in melted butter adds a special flavor of the lobster. After eating each piece of meat from the body pass into the queue, which is where most of the meat and traditionally is left to the end, there are now two ways to extract the tail meat, one is with a fork, push the meat from the bottom after having removed a kind of fins that have lobster at the end of the tail, in the which is a bit of meat that is done the same way that girls legs, biting and sucking every ounce of meat. O, but using both hands to tighten the lobster on its own to break the bottom of the shell, after the creek from one end to another, you can lift and access to the delicious meat that is hidden and waiting to be released. And enjoying the last morsels and pleasant chat over dinner and I told Larry that night Lucile was also my birthday and that they had not wanted to say anything because I did not want to complicate a lot doing nothing special and they appreciated his hospitality.

The larger the mine, almost a kg

Video of crawfish and preparing to delight us, Lucile is melting the butter

The next morning after a delicious breakfast westbound left to return to Edmonton where I would take the plane to return to Inuvik.

But before leaving Nova Scotia ago I had two stops be done, the first was a handmade Gouda cheese, but had to settle for buying a cheese and continue hormita trip because there was nobody to give me a guided tour and the second stop was to a farm that produces honey Maple, Canada's flagship product, the detail is that the maple syrup is only produced in the spring to be the ideal conditions on a sunny day proceeded by a cold night that makes the strongest sweet sap flow allowed a greater amount the famous maple syrup. But even though time was not right the farm owner was very friendly and showed me the machines and I explained the whole process and how technology has made it easier and more accurate throughout the process. All thanks to Larry and Lucile have been buying products from this farm for the past 20 years and not just buy for personal use but they buy for friends and relatives.

The process of making maple syrup begins in late winter where drill holes about 2 inches deep in each of the 18000 trees that have, and every hole out a hose which in turn connects a storage tank, as the trees on this farm are on the hillside all works by gravity, and have several small storage tanks in warehouses where they store the sap out of trees. Depends heavily on the climate is the amount of sap they collect every day, also as the seasons progress the sugar content in the sap decreases, the average of the beginning of the spring between 2.4% and 2.7%.

So the sap collected every day and take it to the shed where it is processed within 24 hours of being harvested.

The extraction process has changed a bit with the technology, but basically follows the same principles today using a reverse osmosis machine to extract large amounts of water, giving pure water is then used to clean machines and tubes at the end of the day. Is the same machine used by large cruise ships to make drinking water from seawater and kept in a closed water could be sold as distilled water. Passing through the machine is at a concentration of between 20% to 25%, and the reason for not using the machine to further reduce the concentration of sugar is that the higher the concentration the longer it takes to process thousands of liters processing .

In reverse osmosis machine goes to a boiler cooking the sap to evaporate the water leaving the solution to a 66.7% sugar concentration that is ideal, but 66.6% to 66.8% is acceptable. To determine the concentration of sugar used thermometers and a barometer, because small differences in ambient pressure change the final temperature for the ideal concentration.

After reaching the ideal concentration, is passed through another filter and is then bottled and sold.

also get other products like maple butter, which is honey with a greater concentration of sugar for which it is placed in another smaller boiler and continue cooking, and if you get all the water evaporated sugar maple.

And that roughly the process that leads from the sap of maple tree to the famous maple syrup. Pity that were not working and all media was kept so I could not take pictures, maybe next spring ....

And so we leave Nova Scotia. Also passing through New Brunswick and reach the city of Quebec where I spent the night, the next day I went to find Evan in Montreal. But we'll leave for the next article because it's been a while since I upload anything. I hope to upload the rest of my return to Inuvik and Inuvik my early days soon.

Fall in Quebec City

Thanks for reading

Juan