Dawson City, Kanada

Kominn i enn eitt landid.  Nu er eg i Kanada og er thad gott og gaman.  Eg a godar og skemmtilegar minningar fra Kanada fra thvi ad eg var taept eitt ar i Gimli og Winnepeg 1989 ad laera ad fljuga.  Kanadabuar eru gott folk og vingjarnlegt.  Fra thvi ad vid forum fra Anchorage, hefur vedrid verid frekar blautt og skyjad.  Vid hjoludum i att ad Fairbanks fra Anchorage og forum fyrsta daginn langleidina ad Denali thjodgardinum.  Vid hjoludum vid raetur haesta fjalls nordur-Ameriku, Mt. McKinley, en thvi midur tha saum vid thad aldrei vegna thoku og rigningar.  En vid gistum a litlu vegamoteli, sem heitir Mary McKinley hotel.  Thad var ekta ameriskt og i fjalla og Alaskastemmingu, en thad sem var merkilegast var ad konan sem a hotelid, sem er a fullordinsaldri sagdi mer ad mamma hennar hefdi verid mikill kvenskorungur og a morg met her i Alaska og vidar.  Hun for medal annars til allra landa i heiminum, nema sudurskautslandsins, og hun meira ad segja reyndi ad fara thangad thegar hun var niraed.  Hun var fyrsta konan til af klifa McKinley fjall ad vetri til, hun gekk lengsta thjodveg i Alaska thegar verid var ad byggja hann ofl ofl.  Konan sagdi mer ad thad vaeri i undirbuninga ad gera biomynd um thessa konu og Julia Roberts eatti ad leika hana !  Skemmtilegt spjall.  Daginn eftir forum vid i Denali thjodgardinn, sem er einn staersti thjodgardur i heimi og gridarlega fallegur og mikid lif thar.  I gardinum  er til ad mynda um 350 grizzli birnir, um 2000 hreindyr, um 2000 elgir ofl.  Mjog fallegt tharna.  Vid vorum heppnir thegar vid komum thangad thvi solin var farin ad skina.  Afram heldum vid og komum til borgarinnar Fairbanks, sem er 32000 manna baer.  Thar snyst lifid mikid um oliuinnsluna sem fer fram fyrir nordan vid Prudhoe Bay.  Thadan liggur svo oliuleidslan fraega sem er um 800 milna long til sudurs og flytur oliuna sudur.  Rett fyrir utan Fairbanks er baer sem heitir einfaldlega NORTH POLE !  Thar er stort jolasveinahus og jolasveinninn alltaf til stadar og allt fullt af joladoti.  Thetta ku vera heimili Santa Claus theirra Amerikumanna.  Allur baerinn er skreyttur med joladoti allt arid um kring.  Mjog serstakt.  Ad sjalfsogdu sagdi eg Santa Claus og odrum tharna ad hinn eini sanni jolasveinn vaeri fra Islandi !  Vid gistum svo sidustu nott a littlu vegamoteli sem var agaett.  Mikil rigning og thrumur og eldingar voru i alla nott og svo i morgun logdum vid af stad i grenjandi rigningu og urdum gegnblautir fljotlega.  Leidin la til Dawson City, thar sem eg sit nuna og er thad merkilegur baer.  I fyrsta lagi var leidin hingad mjog serstok, la hatt upp og var nanast ofan a fjallstoppum alla leid.  Stor hluti leidarinnar var malarvegur og leiddist mer thad ekki.  En baerinn Dawson City er gamall gullgrafarabaer og hefur ollu verid haldi mjog gomlu her.  Thad er eins og ad detta inn i gamla biomynd ad vera her.  Krar og Saloon eins og madur ser i gomlu vestrunum og allt eftir thvi.  Otrulega gaman.  Vid aetlum ad eyda smatima her a morgun og skoda baeinn betur.  Sida holdum vid afram sudur

We’re now in Canada and everything is going great. I have good memories of Canada from when I was in Gimli and Winnepeg in 1989, studying flying. Canadians are very good people and everybody are friendly. It has been wet and windy since we left Anchorage. We rode towards Fairbanks from Anchorage and we almost reached the Denali national park the first day. We rode along the roots of the bigges mountain in North America , Mt. McKinley, but we never saw it because of all the rain. We stayed at a small motel called Mary McKinley hotel. It was a typical American motel with the mountain- and the Alaska feeling. But it was interesting talking to the owner of the motel who told us about her mother who had broken many records in Alaska and elsewhere. E.g. she had been to all the countries in the world, except the Southern Hemisphere. She even attempted to go there when she was ninety years old. She was also the first woman to climb Mt. McKinley in the winter, she walked the longest highway in Alaska etc. The owner (her daughter) also told us that there would be a movie about her in which Julia Roberts would star in! It was an interesting conversation. We went to the Denali national park the day after which was extremely big and beautiful. The sun had come up when we got there so it was especially beautiful there that day. For instance, there are 350 grizzlie bears, 2000 reindeers and over 2000 mooses there etc. But we soon got to Fairbanks, which has 32000 citizens. The oil from the north of Prudhoe Bay, is really important for the people there. From there, the famous oil pipe goes all the way to the south. Right outside Fairbanks there is a small town which is actually called the NORTH POLE! There is a big santa claus house there and there is christmas stuff everywhere. This is supposed to be santa’s house in America. But of course I told everybody that the real santa claus in from Iceland! But we stayed at a small motel that night which was fine. There was a thunderstorm the whole night and it rained a lot. The morning after we started riding towards Dawsons City, but that’s were I am right now. The road here was really special, was at a high altitude the whole way, we were almost riding on top of the mountains. A big part of the road was gravel which I found really fun. Dawson City is an old gold-digger town. It’s like I’m in an old movie when I’m here. Pubs and saloons, like in the old westerns. It was fun to experience that. But we’re going to spend more time here tomorrow and take a look at the town better tomorrow. But after that we’ll head South. Ttyl - Sverrir

Athugasemdir

[Jón Helgi Þórisson (IP-tala skráð) 8.7.2007 kl. 23:05]

"350 grizzli birnir"  Munið don't feed the bears!

"Ad sjalfsogdu sagdi eg Santa Claus og  odrum tharna ad hinn eini sanni jolasveinn vaeri fra Islandi !"  Gott hjá þér og skulum við nú vona að þessi leiði misskilningur hafi nú verið leiðréttur í eitt skipti fyrir öll!

Kveðja,

Jón Helgi