Travel With Kris and Dave

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  • AquaGliding and Churchill Town

    Tourists are no longer allowed to swim or snorkel with the beluga whales in the river, so some creative guide came up with AquaGliding. One might wonder what AquaGliding actually is. We kind of did too. Well it’s a thick foam mat that is towed behind a zodiac. You sit or lay on the mat…

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  • Hudson Bay Boat Trip

    Today we headed back out on the Sam Hearn for a 6 hour Hudson Bay tour. We were given survival suits (sometimes known as Gumby Suits) as we are headed out into open ocean and it is expected to be a bit chilly. We hadn’t even made it out of the estuary before we saw…

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  • Polar Bears and Belugas

    We started our day kayaking with the beluga whales in the estuary of the Churchill River where it empties into Hudson Bay. There were so many whales, it was hard to decide where to look. The bright white moms are still quite protective of their dark gray babies and don’t really want to play. But…

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  • Churchill

    We were supposed be taking this trip at the end of August 2020 for Dave’s 50th birthday. Given the year of Covid and all the disruptions that have come with that, Lazy Bear Lodge in Churchill had to make some adjustments. One of those was cancelling our dates and asking us to move back to…

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  • New York Day 6 – Brooklyn

    On our last day we negotiated a 3pm check out so that we could go exploring and not have to leave our luggage anywhere.  Since out flight home wasn’t until 6pm we had a decent amount of time.  We headed over to DUMBO in Brooklyn.  There are some fun acronyms for places here.  DUMBO stands…

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  • New York Day 5 – New York Skyscrapers

    We headed back out on the subway to see some of the tall buildings of New York.  There are a few! The Empire State Building is probably the most famous.  We headed there first to try to avoid long line-ups. The Empire State is the ‘nickname’ of New York State.  The Empire State Building was…

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  • New York Day 4 – Museum of Natural History and Central Park

    We got to start a bit later today as the American Museum of Natural History doesn’t even open till 10am. We walked a few blocks to the subway only to find weekend track maintenance had closed the access to that line at our station. Oops – we had to detour via another train down to…

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  • New York Day 3 – Statue of Liberty and 911 Memorial

    This trip has been full of bucket list type of sites. We have all grown up with TV and movies shot in NYC so there are lots of familiar places. The Statue of Liberty being perhaps one of the more famous. The official name of the statue is Liberty Enlightening the World. She was a…

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  • New York Day 2 – Central Park and The Met

    We were too late last night to grocery shop at Trader Joe’s, so this morning we headed over before breakfast and coffee. Dave was cranky but recovered once sufficiently caffeinated. I don’t think anyone is particularly jet lagged, being only a three hour time difference, just tired after a long travel day yesterday. After breakfast…

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  • New York – Getting there and Times Square

    We started our trip with a nice and early 5am wake up call. Nothing like flying east to get you up and off to the airport early! We were on a nice new Boeing 787 and while we (Kris and I) had emergency row seats with tons of leg room, we had to “reboot the…

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