Winnipeg to Churchill, Day 1: Going Offline
As I write this, we're packing up our hotel room in the Delta and fretting over (1) Leaving behind things we probably should have kept and (2) Finding enough space for everything we have kept with us. I'm sure we will manage somehow.
After we finish packing, we'll take a taxi to the station. Even if we felt up to walking with the luggage we still have, it's threatening rain here.
Leaving the hotel means going offline until (at best) we get to Churchill. There's no internet on the train, I do not have data roaming on my phone, and even if I did, much of the trip is going to be through areas that have no connectivity at all. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. We can probably relax in a way we often do not get a chance to do.
Meanwhile, our advance research on what the train is like means that Lisa and I will almost certainly be recording material for at least one episode of Railway Legends, Myths, and Stories, because just about everything we've seen has led us to say, "We can do better than that."
Our lodging in Churchill says that it has internet. If it does, we'll check in again from there.
After we finish packing, we'll take a taxi to the station. Even if we felt up to walking with the luggage we still have, it's threatening rain here.
Leaving the hotel means going offline until (at best) we get to Churchill. There's no internet on the train, I do not have data roaming on my phone, and even if I did, much of the trip is going to be through areas that have no connectivity at all. But that's not necessarily a bad thing. We can probably relax in a way we often do not get a chance to do.
Meanwhile, our advance research on what the train is like means that Lisa and I will almost certainly be recording material for at least one episode of Railway Legends, Myths, and Stories, because just about everything we've seen has led us to say, "We can do better than that."
Our lodging in Churchill says that it has internet. If it does, we'll check in again from there.