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Bison: This is the Wood Buffalo National Park
This is THE largest national park in Canada. You can do every outdoor sport known to man here. And guess what, it has the largest herd of...
Steve Schmidt
Jul 28, 20243 min read
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Hay River to Fort Smith to Fort Fritzgerald & back to Hay River
This trip took us several days. There are NO services from Hay River to either of these communities, so make sure you gas up. If you are...
Steve Schmidt
Jul 27, 20247 min read
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Fort Resolution
Fort Resolution is a reserve on the south end of Great Slave Lake. It is on Hwy 6 and 150km from Hay River. First located at the mouth of...
Steve Schmidt
Jul 19, 20243 min read
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Alexandra & Twin Falls: Hwy 1, Northwest Territories
When we crossed the 60th Parallel, we left the Alberta road system, Hwy 35N and entered a new highway system for the Northwest...
Steve Schmidt
Jul 17, 20243 min read
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Day 5 + many more days to come
Enough of the counting of days. It was a good idea but short lived. Some days there's stuff to mention, other days, not so much. We were...
Steve Schmidt
Jul 13, 20242 min read
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Day 4: The Deh Cho Route: Valleyview, Alta - High Level, Alta
This route connects the Alberta Highway 35 with the Mackenzie Highway. We came up Hwy 43N then turned onto 35N. When we got to the...
Steve Schmidt
Jul 12, 20243 min read
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Day 3
After much backing and forthing with Vance and Randy about the route north, we have decided to change our route. We were going to take...
Steve Schmidt
Jul 10, 20242 min read
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Day 2 Valemont, BC - Hinton, Alberta Today went rather smoothly. Its always a spectacular site when you cross the bridge at Tete Jaune and out jumps Mt. Robson.
One of the most beautiful drives I have been on is from Tete Jaune, BC to Hinton, Alberta.. which means you are driving through the Rocky...
Steve Schmidt
Jul 9, 20241 min read
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Vladivostok June 12/13 2019
OK, Russia here we come! Very excited about seeing Vladivostok. The Aeroflot flight over from Seoul was just fine, which means we...
Steve Schmidt
Jun 27, 20246 min read
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Tuesday/Wednesday, May 26/27
This one is turning out to be The Journey From Hell. After two hours of buses and skytrains to get to YVR two hours before flight time,...
Steve Schmidt
Jun 26, 20242 min read
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Coming this winter!
Hi everyone. Deb and I have put together numerous diaries from our travels to various parts of the world, and now it is time to share...
Steve Schmidt
Jun 26, 20241 min read
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Coming this winter!
Hi everyone. I have been taking and categorizing bird photos from various parts of the world for years, and now it is time to start...
Steve Schmidt
Jun 26, 20241 min read
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Northwest Territories and The Yukon
We left Kamloops, BC at high noon, Sunday, July 7. (Happy Birthday Kayl, Nana & Papa are off to the north). The trailer is loaded and I...
Steve Schmidt
Jun 26, 20241 min read
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Radiation - What Can We Do About It?
My last post briefly discussed the anticipated radiation dose from Galactic Cosmic Rays. More specifically, NASA calculates that future...

Jay Stevens
Mar 4, 20246 min read
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Radiation - What Can We Expect on the Trip?
We've spent almost all of the previous posts discussing potential opportunities for getting to Mars. Can we do it, how fast can we get...

Jay Stevens
Feb 26, 20248 min read
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Going in Style - The Aldrin Cycler
My last post talked about Starship, the new spacecraft under development by SpaceX. If SpaceX can make it work, Starship will certainly...

Jay Stevens
Feb 19, 20245 min read
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Going in Style - Starship
My next-to-last post explored whether we could shorten the trip to Mars, and we found that things aren't looking very good on the...

Jay Stevens
Feb 12, 20245 min read
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Nuclear-Thermal: Our Squandered Opportunity
As promised, here is my not-to-lengthy whine about our idiotic abandonment of nuclear-thermal fifty years ago and my hope that we get it...

Jay Stevens
Feb 5, 20244 min read
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Are we there yet? Why is this taking so long?
My last few posts explored whether we are even capable of transporting people to Mars, and the answer is almost certainly yes. We can do...

Jay Stevens
Jan 29, 20245 min read
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Do We Even HAVE a Bus That Will Go to Mars?
My last post discussed when we can go to Mars (once every 780 days, all tickets non-refundable) given the realities of orbital mechanics,...

Jay Stevens
Jan 22, 20247 min read
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