After a wonderful four months in the Greater Vancouver Region, my batteries are recharged, my bank account is fully depleted, and there is a mounting giddiness at the realisation that the Yukon is next for me.

Because my finances are a disaster* I’ve decided to forgo a foray onto Vancouver Island and instead head straight north. I refuse to make any sort of plans seeing as this trip has taken a life of its own, but I am envisioning getting to Prince George in about a week and then trying to find two weeks worth of work there before pushing on to Whitehorse via Dawson Creek, giving me roughly two weeks of living like I did last September.

My original thought had been to shoot straight for Dawson City and then return to Whitehorse in July for my Chilkoot hike.  I’ve decided, instead, to make Whitehorse my destination for late May/early June. My hope is to get work quickly and to make enough to get to Inuvik.  If not, I’ll just push on to Dawson City in late July/early August. I know that if I go to Dawson and backtrack to Whitehorse, there is little hope that I would be able to go back to Dawson in later summer to get to the Dempster highway.

Before I leave here on May 2nd, I need to have Miranda’s oil changed as well as purchase some supplies for the Chilkoot hike. It’s going to be a deliciously frantic couple of weeks as I make the final preparations for an adventure a lifetime in the making.

(*I envisioned a lot of ‘worst case scenarios’, finances-wise, but the biggest economic crisis since the 1930s wasn’t one of them. With my investments worth just about half what they were in September, there is no way I am cashing in anything at this time!)