Day 81 - Ski-doo

Today Terry, dude I'm staying with, fired up the ski-doo and let me loose with it :). In all the years that I was in Canada, I never got to drive a ski-doo and it was a hell of a lot of fun!! The photo below shows the ski-doo. You can also see my tracks where I was sinking down into the snow which was up to my knee. Hard to believe a machine that heavy just glides over the top of snow that I sink down into.



Here I am in full ski-doo glory outfit. The photo is screaming out for a caption something along the lines of "Take me to your leader". Generally always used the visor as the wind froze your face as one is motoring along.



The ski-doo handles a bit like a Go-kart on powdery snow here. For those who ever played Mario Kart, handles a little bit like that with fantastic suspension (see photo below for 'power-sliding' on the snow).

One thing about being in Canada and this area (out on a farm), is that the fields are giant, untouched snow areas. None of this compact snow from every man and his dog using it, I'm probably the first person all winter to be in this area.

So the photo below shows a little bit of the expanse of the land. Only problem is watching out for fences. Seeing the snow is about 2-6 foot deep, the ski-doo may actually go over the top of a barb wire fence. If the snow is a little low, might not go over the top of the fence which may make a mess of the machine and yourself.



My attention was drawn to the full moon out and I went to take some pictures (still haven't figured out how to take good moon photos yet). When I turned around and looked the other way, I thought the sunset and the farmhouse was pretty interesting.



Other than that, the other day someone mentioned something about my step brother who I lost contact with about 15 years ago. In a round about way, I managed to track him down and had an interesting chat on the telephone tonight. When you are like 1 of 10 kids, these things seem to happen for some strange reason. Ah ... where does the time go?