by A Bunker | Sep 19, 2022 | TRAVEL
It’s a long way to go around for this gig, a long haul. Leave Ottawa, fly through Iqaluit and Rankin Inlet then plop down overnight in Yellowknife. Next morning, leave there, fly over places of wonder like Alymer Lake, Tree River, Bathurst Inlet and Coronation...
by A Bunker | Jul 28, 2022 | TRAVEL
HUNGRY FOR IT! Not a vehicle on the road from home to New Liskeard, total highway Deadsville out there. Bren was sitting straight, perfect postured as always in the passenger seat, subjecting me much of the drive to some rather raunch and dusty playlist tunes. For the...
by A Bunker | Dec 5, 2021 | TRAVEL
In a hurry to just get done what needed to be done, while setting up the tent in the hot, late summer sun I jammed the fly pole right through the fabric. Damaged shelter a “dog-gammit” I wanted to say, but with Justin and his young lad watching over I...
by A Bunker | Aug 10, 2021 | TRAVEL
Red shirts hang outside many of the homes in Kugluktuk, Nunavut. A homegrown talent, the young actress Emerald MacDonald who starred in the movie “The Grizzlies,” was found murdered in a cabin out on the land, her murderer unknown and still hiding somewhere in this...
by A Bunker | Jul 12, 2021 | TRAVEL
Leah came along on the spring annual fishing trip, our daughter who lights up our world every day. And I can’t stop looking at the trip photos. Back in March I just threw it out there. “Kiddo, you wanna go to Nipigon with your mom and I this year?” “YEAH BOOMER!” She...
by A Bunker | Sep 15, 2020 | TRAVEL
Nothing there between them but long periods of silence. She’s quite pretty, and he’s a grub. A young couple they didn’t much match and I guess hadn’t figured that out yet. When the waitress came to take their order she was about to speak until...
