The Spell of the Yukon
That’s how this famous poem from Robert Service, an Englishman who moved out to the Klondike after the gold rush years, starts. Now I wanted gold too, but of a different kind. And far more easy […]
Canada
The Dempster Delights
The Dempster Highway, Canada’s only all-weather road to cross the Arctic circle, was officially opened in 1979. That same year, in the Netherlands, a girl was born and decided to go cycle that road in winter one […]
Ice and the beauty of the North
For some reason everything turns out so wonderfully! I was nervous and excited to be heading up the ice road on the MacKenzie river delta and the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to catch a […]
Here we go
Do you recognise this thing? You see or hear something and it won’t leave you alone? It’s been month’s since I saw this youtube video and though: Far out! That’s ridiculous! Who would do such a […]
Winter is coming
I was thinking how funny it is I went to Iceland to ride the ring road in winter and allowed myself 3 months. Where in Canada I’ve given myself a month to ride a distance that’s […]
Cycling Dutch Girl 