the big land

i get an email from ideas buddy - stating that he is away from pouch cove as he has a gig in iqaluit. later on another saying that the corporation is flying him to nain.

the evil twin is now on cruises around labrador as one of the invited guests.

i hear endless stories from the port kirwan cod piece, of the big land and how great it is as he was heading back up there with the upper canadian.

but it is minnesota flats driving up to alaska and her new life that pushes me over the breaking point. not only did she press on beyond the yukon - where i would have headed and stopped - but she pressed on and while in my opinion she went in the wrong direction, i am envious that she saw great expanses of land and sky, emptiness and an awareness of space.

there is the romance of the road names the yellowhead, klondike and alaska and the most evocative the top of the world highway.
there is the - although she would cringe at this - the canadian fascination with THE NORTH which still holds the romance that people in the states have lost with the domestication of the west. i hear to ghost of gzowski.

being the contrarian, i plan to go in the opposite direction - and not quite as far north. a slow outing to the rock via the big land. racing through the populated sections of ontario and québec, following the north shore of the st. lawrence - even though and because google maps suggests the southern shore - through baie-saint-paul, les escoumins to baie comeau before heading north to wabush/labrador city, the trans labrador, a ferry to the labrador coast, down the coast back into québec and the blanc sablon ferry to the rock. as i won’t be able to speed, i am hoping that i’m hoping that the new mind set will transfer to the island so that i can finally go down those long culs-de sac to see what is at the end.
the route to happy valley- goose bay
the route to the great northern and pouch cove