kevin_standlee | Churchill, Manitoba, Day 1 (Reply)

We arrived in Churchill, Manitoba this morning at 8 AM, an hour early, in part due to the fact that due to a derailment on the branch to Thompson, Manitoba, we did not go to Thompson at all. Indeed, because the back-and-forth on the Thompson Subdivision, we actually stopped for around eight hours at The Pas, not because of any blockage on the line, but because in general, trains are not allowed to run ahead of schedule, and we consequently had to let enough time pass that when we left Gillam, farther up the line, we were not running "hot."

I would love to show photos from today, and as I write this I just spent more than an hour trying to caption and catalog just the photos I took today in Flickr, but then Flickr went down. I hope it will come back later and that it did not lose my captions.

Today was a big day for Lisa. She achieved a lifetime bucket-list item. Those of you who follow me on Mastodon know what it was. I'll write more about it when I have access to my photos again. In the meantime, I'm going to try and get some sleep in the four-bedroom/two-bath, fully-equipped house that Lisa, I, and four others have rented for our three-day/two night stay in Churchill. My early impression of the Beluga Beach House is that I wish we could stay here for a week instead of only two nights. More later, with pictures.