Yellowknife, Northwest Territories

December 29, 2007

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of virtual trips to places that have long fascinated me but which have exceeded my travel budget. By spending a little time on sites like Flickr or YouTube.. and combining this on-the-ground imagery with the satellite imagery provided by Google.. it is possible to get a lively sense of a distant place.

So why a fascination with Yellowknife? I think it is the holdover from a period in high school when I read a lot of Jack London. It is a country that demands self-reliance and toughness. This Jack London thing is part of what convinced me to go to a tiny school in Alberta. But even from Alberta I could let me mind wander north and think about what it must be like way up there.. and "way up there" seemed to be what Yellowknife was all about.

The following is a map on which I have set the photos that have formed the version of Yellowknife that I now hold in my imagination.

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[Note: you may need to zoom in to see all the marked sites.]