Friday 11 February 2011

The Long Journey North (but not as long as the next one!!!)


Yesterday was a day of packing and organising ourselves in preparation for our flight to Resolute Bay.  We started by heading to the air movements section on Trenton Airforce Base to get the final details.  They (like the rest of Canada it would seem) were very helpful and allowed us to drop off most of our bags to avoid unnecessary faff at 0400 this morning.

Once we had organised our bags, dropped them off at the terminal and handed the hire car back we found ourselves with some hours to kill before an early night so we headed to the cinema for some escapism.  The King’s Speech was excellent, although Matt and I were the youngest in the audience by about 20yrs and felt out of place without ‘blue-rinse’ in our hair - it must have been OAP offer night.

Before getting a cab back to the Travelodge we stopped for some dinner which was large but not as large as some of our previous eating exploits - to be honest we are both bored of the excessive eating and feel pretty lethargic for all the food and lack of exercise….this of course wont be the case in time.

The film and food certainly helped with our trepidation but it seems that for both of us the trip North today is another “bench mark” in our journey.  The reassuring thing is, we know once at Resolute Bay, we can start training and rehearsals again, which hopefully will allow some of the anxieties we have to be overcome, some routines to be established, and the sense of getting to grips with elements of the equipment and environment.

The journey today should take about 7-8hrs and will see us fly North, with around 8 other passengers on a chartered 737 aircraft, firstly to Iqaluit (pronounced i-cal-uit), and then on to our stop, Resolute Bay, before the flight continues to a place called Alert.

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