Golden, March 31 – April 21

Seong trespassing
I wish we had a picture of the shelves in the store. There were about 5 of these. Only one per!

We had really liked this place, plus our hosts Dan and Pavla, when we were here March 17 – 24, and so we arranged to come back for a week after Banff.

After much deliberation, and phone calls with Peter Rice and Lyn Tonelli, Seong decides to take another week of shifts – May 12 to 19. New York City is looking particularly ugly at this time, and Andrew Cuomo is having a moment – he seems to be rising to the challenge. This decision of Seong’s puts some contours on our trip – we are now thinking that we will need to go back to Bellingham in early May to fly to Ketchikan; the oddball routes (via ferry from Prince Rupert, or via mail fight from Hyder) make even less sense than they did before.

Canada looks a bit better than the US these days, but it could all be that testing is inadequate in both areas.

So we elect to stay longer and ask our hosts about staying a month, but ultimately book for two more weeks for $375 Canadian per week; our tentative departure date is April 21. The weather still looks good at this point and we are cross country skiing every day.

In fact, we are starting to like this area a lot and are thinking that if/when things get better, we may look into a several week rental rental next winter.

We started wearing masks a few days ago, sewn by a local quilter
Score!!