Going nowhere today. The dogs are chained up. They can just about reach each other.  They use one side of their circle as a bathroom and the other side as the dining room. Bill and […]

Bill reports that they are in a beautiful spot, with a neat hotel and dinner at six. The weather and flight over was fantastic. They went for a walk to the village, and yes, the […]

After a relatively short flight, only four and a quarter hours, John and Bill landed in Greenland. It was 30 below. Bill snapped a picture as they departed from Canada, of the closest bit of […]

Bill writes “Hi.  No phone service here. Staying at the Discovery Hotel.  Good flight today.  Six hours mostly on top with some breaks.  Got up to 7,000 and saved a lot of fuel.  The longest […]

Bill wrote “In case you haven’t guessed we are here for the day. We rented Moses’s truck for the day and went shopping.  Got lost.” After visiting the sights, they found a warm hangar.

They went from Fort McMurray to Rankin Inlet. It took six and a half  hours to cover 790 miles. The ceiling was low, but the country is flat and the visibility was OK. Re-fuelling was […]

Bill sent a picture with some interesting prop effects. They left Prince George about 8:30, flew for 4 hours and arrived at Fort McMurray about 1:30 local time. The weather was OK most of the […]

Sometime around noon the loading and trial flights were completed, and Bill and John took the plane in to fuel it up. There were the main tanks and the belly tanks… And the black Turtlepac […]

Bill is flying to Finland in a Turbo-Beaver, C-FOEV. He is taking the tracker with him, and you can follow his progress at https://share.delorme.com/BillAlder It’s an all new adventure, but this time Capi and I get […]

We were away from North America long enough to forget: 1. Conversations in English about anything with anyone. We are so used to smiling, shrugging, apologizing and uttering single phrases of badly pronounced Spanish that […]