by A Bunker | Apr 11, 2026 | TRAVEL
It was November 2015 the first time setting foot in Nunavut for work. Landed in a Kitikmeot town for Nursing through an agency, and do remember very well how that first week was a real test. A Friday night on-call, again my first, and after a regular full workday I...
by A Bunker | Sep 16, 2025 | TRAVEL
Brown, white, red, yellow and blue, along with the Pointer Sisters doing the Neutron Dance and Tina singing “you’re simply the best,” during our early departure from home it was all the potato colors that were on our morning minds… and some lucky socks on the...
by A Bunker | Sep 4, 2025 | TRAVEL
A take off north out of Yellowknife destined for Nunavut came just a week after leaving Yellowknife and Great Bear Lake. Travel travel, I was beginning to unravel. Had received a 26 day contract in a familiar community named Taloyoak. Five years had passed since last...
by A Bunker | Aug 5, 2025 | TRAVEL
The years have passed rather quickly since last visiting Plummer’s Arctic Lodges in Canada’s Northwest Territories. It was last in 2019 that our small group of six booked the self-guided option of Arctic Circle Lodge to ourselves, and I remember it being an incredible...
by A Bunker | Jul 22, 2025 | TRAVEL
Aerosmith’s “Sweet Emotions” was the first tune to come on as Bren and I pulled out of the driveway early one Tuesday morning. Biggs & Barr kept us company until out of Ottawa’s radio range just a little ways beyond Cobden. Bren lays a rule that we must take only...
by A Bunker | Oct 14, 2024 | TRAVEL
Believe that for most it’s escapism… the desire to withdraw from daily life, routines and responsibilities to engage is something else. Be it peace, challenge, happiness or whatever, seeking it as deeply as one may choose. Maybe the vibe or convo on the patio...
