The moon is bloated and bright, a real full orange moon, and I'm walking down Casey St., a real steep hill heading down towards the water, and I'm in Newfoundland!, and I feel grand. A month in the tundra and a few days in Winnipeg broke in my not-too-old new shoes, and they make soft-slap padding sounds as I stretch my legs down the hill with a smile. I whisper the name of the place under my breath, "Newfoundland", and am filled with excitement, the word like ...

After traveling for a day by plane(s), and two days by train through the northern boreal forest, I arrived in Churchill, Manitoba. The end of the first travel day found me in Winnipeg, Manitoba, with the sun starting to set as I boarded the train that would carry me to the Hudson Bay and the tundra. While the rumors of overly friendly and open (from American standards) Canadians were not validated during my time with Air Canada, the train to the far north was t...

ITINERARY June 6: - Depart Hartford, CT by plane, arrive Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) - Depart Winnipeg, Manitoba by train, arrive Churchill, Manitoba July 11: - Depart Churchill, Manitoba by train, arrive Winnipeg, Manitoba - Depart Winnipeg, Manitoba by plane, arrive St. Johns, Newfoundland & Labrador (Canada) July 26: - Depart St. Johns, N & L by plane, arrive Glasgow, Scotland - Depart Glasgow, Scotland by train, arrive Aberdeen, ...

This thing is called a Travel Journal, and I may be in blatant violation of the spirit of this service by logging some remarks while sitting in my family's house at Choate, in Connecticut, but one entry from home will serve as a good benchmark. Indeed, to reach this point in which I am actually typing these words, I had to select not only the country, state, and town I was writing from, but an activity that lured me to this place as well. The drop down menu inc...

With eight Study Centre computers available in the lab, all equipped with high-speed Internet connections, and a wireless network that I could access with my own laptop from several rooms in the building, my original intention (decided upon in my first week of living in the near-Arctic) was to post photographic documentation of my adventures on a daily basis and, at least once a week, a lengthy journal entry describing the time's passing in detail. The unexpl...