-39°F

      Hello everyone! I'm home again and thought I should tell you what it feels like to experience a 70° degree swing (158° degrees for Imperialists in the crowd) within a two day span. Ahem. Very very swingy. If you are ever to travel from Cancun to Yellowknife consider yourself warned. How do you dress for that plane ride? There I'm applying suntan lotion, here it is moisturiser. There flip flops, here two pairs of socks simultaneously tucked into these mothers (your feet will be good to -100°F though the rest of you may be dead). There sandy beaches, here gravelled roads. There sunburn, here frost bite. There blue sky, here blue sky too. Completely different worlds under clear skies, both achingly beautiful.

      Despite some travel hitches we got to and fro okay and I have scads² of palm tree/sand/horizon/ocean pictures to prove it. (Also I hope to never say scads again. It sounds horrible - ie "picking through scads of photos". EWWW.) In fact I am somewhat buried in scaddy palm tree photos (I didn't say I wouldn't say scaddy) and sorting through them is turning out to be a "this-is-taking-me-hours" kind of job and meanwhile there is regular life that needs to be lived. SO! It will happen. I will get there. Just not today quite.
      Later dudes. It's good to be back.