by A Bunker | Jul 1, 2015 | TRAVEL
The girls finishing up school, seeing a window in the work schedule and my gar season nearing a close, it was decided a second solo northern roady was in order. Different ideas rolling around in mind, I always seemed to brake my thoughts right back to the Nipigon....
by A Bunker | Feb 17, 2015 | TRAVEL
Winter 2000… Attawapiskat. . Winter 2015… . January 21st, this picture was taken on the ice road outside of Attawapiskat Ontario. Fifteen years to the day had passed; an Anniversary if you will, since I had once left a home in the Ottawa Valley to live in...
by A Bunker | Sep 20, 2014 | TRAVEL
. . . During Elementary School Geography lessons I remember learning of Canada’s Provinces and Territories. Photos from the classroom slide projector flashed images on a screen showing beautiful landscapes such as our colorful Ontario autumn forests and...
by A Bunker | Aug 1, 2014 | TRAVEL
CENTER LINE SOLO. . My pencil arms, my foot of lead. Burn, let the engine dry, while the miles fly. This trip as mentioned was a quick decision, and the plan was to sorta and simply go with the wind. A sixteen hour and more drive ahead, bed made up in the back of the...
by A Bunker | Jul 18, 2014 | TRAVEL
During 1938 while in Yellowknife on business, Warren Plummer and his father had heard stories from local folk about an incredible fishing area called the “Taltheilei Narrows” on Great Slave Lake. Curious, the two traveled by canoe some 150 miles with a 4hp...
by A Bunker | Mar 30, 2014 | ICE FISHING, TRAVEL
The season ending for me at home, nothing was more anticipated this winter than our traveling north to Nepigon for a final week of wilderness and fish. Friends Len, and Stevie Zebco were the two fellas who would complete our threesome. Up to the task of fishing...