http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Squidsickle/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Squidsickle en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:46:44 +0000 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 01:46:44 +0000 Aww yeah.Ripped this video off just now CHECK IT OUT. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Newfoundland-Labrador/Goose-Bay/blog-440874.html I can't believe over 3 weeks have passed since I arrived in Labrador. It went by quick but yet.. feels like Ive been here longer. I have so many stories I wish I could have told but Im so busy having fun here. I started this post 10 days ago And never finished it.Recent News MY MOM IS GOING TO COMPETE AS PART OF TEAM CANADA AT THE 2010 ITU TRIATHALON WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS in Budapest http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Newfoundland-Labrador/Goose-Bay/blog-436949.html The Labrador Highway is a living organism. Breathing changing shape conquering evolving. Her skin is gravel it moves forms holes washes out needs to be continuously kept in line by graters and gravel trucks or else she would mutate certainly into the form she wants to beThe Labrador Wilderness.Lining the highway for over 1000 kilometers unbroken the wild shrinks you daunts you manip http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Newfoundland-Labrador/Goose-Bay/blog-434731.html Im heading North.Away from the knowns of Victoria. Away from friends away from an amazing Longboardedexperience in Ottawa. Away from an amazing team of people in Nova Scotia who now mostly all call themselves Katimavik Project Leaders.Im heading North. Today to BaieComeau tomorrow to Labrador City and Wednesday to Happy ValleyGoose Bay my new home. And Im incredibly excited. Im exci http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Moncton/blog-432364.html This post has photos but unfortunately they dont bring you up to date. So much bizzle has happened with no posts.. so it would take a wee while to write it all down.I made it to Victoria. Last day was 130 kms from Hope through Langley to Tawassen. I received my first official puncture in 7000 km on this particular kind of tire Schwalbe Marathon Plus's right smack in the middle of Langley http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-425018.html HeyMan do I have stories to tell. Do I ever. Man JeezeHere I am admist a bike trip headed for now to Kelowna. Im meeting a friend here on the 10th which is today Ive met her who Ive known for many years. She actually just spent a year in South America But Ive had a nice journey getting here.It all started last Monday night. I rode 115km from Lake Louise to Golden BC. In Golden w http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Kelowna/blog-416937.html And horses are blue. This is me signing off from a normal life for a while. Im just about to get a lift with a friend into the Rockies into Banff. Fromthere itll be 5 days all by my lonesome on my bike through the mountains until I hit Kelowna. Im about to do something Ive wanted to do for most of my walking talking life. And on a slightly less epic note I bought way too much food. I http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/blog-415439.html So here I am the breaker of news. My plans changed about biking around the world. For now. I have a job instead. A guaranteed income that will give me some savings. It starts Augest 16th. It starts in Halifax NS. From arriving there I travel 1 hour north to Truro to do two weeks of training. Come the beginning of September myself and 2 other staff will be driving 36 hours1900km no http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/blog-413174.html HiHere are some kickass photos for youSome of the photos were taken from a Viterra Grain Elevator where we toured. Enough grain to fill 100 railcars literally comes through that facility every WEEK. Almost all of the products that come through this elevator go through a long long journey ending up in Asia. In Asia its packaged and occasionally shipped back to us with the Product of Can http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Australia/Australian-Capital-Territory/Canberra/blog-405347.html Check this outhttpwww.albertalocalnews.comreddeeradvocatenewsCyclingthespiansrideintoRedDeer45397652.htmlWe're in the local newspaper YEAHLoveTyler http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-400273.html Red Deer Alberta is our current home.After tossing pictures onto this blog its time for bed. Oteshaland is a magical place as living in a mobile superawesome community might be. This slog of pictures is from this winter this last month and last week. They're photos taken by Katrina which Ive just recently received from her.Tata and be wellTyler and the rest of the Prairie Skies team. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Calgary/blog-399820.html I made it Booyah.We're here just outside of Calgary just finishing our training week. How freaking awesome is it to see the mountains again.Day after tomorrow we leave towards Calgary where we'll stay for the weekend. After that who knows.I applied for a Katimavik Project Leader position on the East Coast for after the tour. The interview went really well I feel like I have the job. Sin http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Alberta/Bragg-Creek/blog-396892.html And here I am.About to embark yet again on a dangerous scary journey across vast expanses of space through time and the universe its self.However this time the journey wont be quite as scary as one would imagine. The journey is with Otesha. Again.This time a Tour Liason position is what I will have. I will be in charge of everything awesome when it comes to corresponding with commun http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Benin/East/Parakou/blog-392265.html Who knewWho knew I could get good at something as obscure as mushing dogs. Last season I became capable at running my own team and capable of mangaging several other teams on trail. This year Ive become capabale of managing MANY teams on trail simultaneously. I know the approximate ages metabolisms attitudes and of course names of the 370 dogs in our kennel. I can determine how well a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-385025.html And Tyler Takes a Day Off.From working 7 days a week for the last 1.5 months man does it feel AWESOME to take a day to yourself for yourself.I baked cookiesI cleanedI fixed our washing machine hooked up our dryer hooked up a TV and DVD player and cooked a kickass dinner.AND I am succesfully overcoming all the challenges I had last winter working at Chocpaw. I am incredibly proud of mys http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/Amundsen-Scott-South-Pole-Station/blog-359471.html Snow Here No freakin' way.Here are some photos taken recentlyish. As depicted in one of the photos WE'RE DOGSLEDDING NOW And it rocks. Man what a stressful sport.. so much chaos with those dogs when we're harnessing them to take them out for a run. They produce more energy then I care to try to curb some days. And on a lessstressful note my bicycle is still working And Im riding http://www.travelblog.org/Antarctica/Antarctica/Ross-Sea/blog-347320.html Here I am in South River again with most of the staff I will be working with this winter. I had strong reservations this morning as I sat aboard the train cruising out of toronto. Its really daunting to reenter this community where I last year had a really miserable time. Even as I sat there in the dog yard this evening about to take part in the feeding thats going to happen every day for http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-345162.html So here I am in Guelph ON WhopeeI arrived in Bolton ON after 6 days of frosty biking riding about 350km. Man I must have been going slow.Ive never been this cold for so long on a bike ride before. Definately puts a new.. spin on touring. But life is well. I've adapted to the cold the first nights of my trip were hellish but I quickly realized what a fun time I could have camping http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/Ontario/Bolton/blog-337772.html Yep that's where I am.And Im on the cusp of leaving on my bike ride down to Toronto. And its sunny and Im full from an amazing breakfast and my bike has enough food on it for 3 or 4 days and Im riding through places Ive never ever been before.And it makes me happy. And I just on friday did a presentationworkshop about Otesha in a middle school which was my first ever outside of actuall http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver/blog-326500.html They're going to be awesome and IN VICTORIALocation Fernwood Community Centre 1240 Gladstone Ave VictoriaDate Sunday Aug 24th at 730 pmWhat they are and what they doJust incase you DONT know.. The sunshine coast tour is the Otesha tour thats running parallel to ours. And their final performance is in Victoria They've been touring up the sunshine coast and all over the island fo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/British-Columbia/Vancouver-Island/Victoria/blog-315117.html