Dave & Meredith's Travel Blog

To give you a taste of Churchill, here are a few miscellaneous shots around town that didn’t fit into other posts. Around the perimeter of town there are many signs like this one warning of dangers: Churchill is a working grain port. There’s a railroad line that comes all the way north and stops at […]

Near the end of our time in Churchill, I was speaking with someone in one of the other groups who rode in another buggy near ours. They said that whenever we approached a bear, they saw all of our windows go down in unison and many long lenses poke out of the windows. They said […]

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Today was our last day and, aside from logistics of packing up and checking out, the main event for me was the optional dog sledding. Four of our group did this and it was really fun. When we showed up, the dogs were chained and not in their harness. Once they saw us, they went […]

My window looked out behind the hotel. The hotel is at one end of the town and polar bears can come close to the hotel if they enter the town. We were warned repeatedly not to ever walk behind the hotel since bears are frequently back there. I haven’t seen any yet from the window […]