This travel home has been a very full day of trqavel between Arctic bay and Edmonton beginning with  being up about 6 AM today. Last night I was scheduled to stay at the hotel as I had packed up my house, but when I went to check in after coming back from the office at 9 pm discovered my spot had been bumped by 3 newly arrived teachers. So borrowed a sleeping bag from Aletha and slept of at the house, using up the last of my food cereal and fruit for breakfast, a walk with the dog when the taxi didn’t arrive. Finally just before 8 and the flight is to arrive at 8:35 am the taxi driver came claiming she could find out where I was staying. My office keys got dropped off at the health centre..rang the buzzer and left. Stuck behind a gravel truck on the dusty nanasivik road made just in time. Quick dog walk and into the kennel and on to the plane for Dysis. Seats very full. In the Iqaluit, had 2-3 hrs to kill. so headed over to Capital Suites where I normally stay, could use the Internet and leave some of my carry on backpacks. Went on a walk along the beach there appeared to be a number of small different colored wooden sheds or garages…obviously where hands or boats are kept and worked on. What however struck me was the garbage strewn across the beach. In airport met a number of different people including Peter Mansbridge who graciously let me take a photo with him. CBC is following PM Harper and his travels across the north…on flight from Arctic Bay sat next to a lady whose family ran an arctic tourist lodge and exchanged stories on our experiences. In the airport, a 14 yr old boy Jason came up to me and remembered me from Cambridge Bay. This was from 4 years ago! He was one of 75 students who had gone on a 2 week cruise from Churchill through Davis strait….75 students from all over the world. 40 plus chaperones and a Russian ship.  12 them were Inuit!