Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

It’s a beauty way to go. Or so I’m told by Bob & Doug McKenzie (and to be complete, Geddy Lee too).

When this post goes live, it means I’m flying up to Churchill, Canada for a photo workshop with Andy Biggs to shoot polar bears. There’s a summary itinerary page here and I’ve updated our Itineraries page too. I expect it to be very cold. The 10-day forecast calls for a 20 degree high during the day and 10 degrees at night. No, not Celsius. 🙂 I should have enough gear to stay warm. I did buy some new cold weather boots that claim they’re “rated” to 40 degrees below zero. They certainly look impressive if nothing else.

This is a “short” trip (yeah, I know, it’s all relative). It’s a nice change to pack for a trip that’s only a week long. There’s so little luggage compared to all of the other trips this year that it’s easy packing. Although at this point, I better be pretty good at packing. This is the only trip so far where for the most part I’m already packed two days ahead of leaving.

Meredith is not coming on this one since the trip will be filled with photo nerds who would drive her batty talking all day about all things photography. She did say once though that she finds it amusing when men talk about their photo gear. She said something about machismo, adequacy, and measuring up but I just didn’t understand what she was talking about at all. Anyway, the hotel claims there’s wireless Internet in every room so, time permitting, I’ll try to post enough to give people a sense of what it’s like.

– Dave