{"id":222,"date":"2024-07-17T04:07:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T04:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/?p=222"},"modified":"2024-07-17T04:19:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T04:19:55","slug":"in-inuvik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gisellebill.org\/bike\/uncategorized\/in-inuvik\/","title":{"rendered":"In Inuvik!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We made it to Inuvik! This is the end of the Dempster Highway! We are going to continue a bit further north to the Arctic Ocean at Tuktoyaktuk. But first we\u2019re going to take a rest day here in Inuvik. It\u2019s by far the biggest metropolis we\u2019ve seen in quite a while. It\u2019s even got at least one traffic signal! More importantly we\u2019re sleeping in a nice hotel, have showered, done laundry, and had a fantastic dinner! And dessert! Then we stopped for snacks at the grocery store!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The terrain has changed markedly over the past few days. First, we left the mountain ridges behind for small hills dotted by lakes and ponds. Now we\u2019re in an almost completely flat landscape. We\u2019ve also entered the land of mosquitoes and biting flies. This is what we signed up for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s also been very hot the past few days, above 80 degrees. This isn\u2019t exactly what we thought it would be like north of the Arctic Circle! Not much use for all these warm layers we\u2019re lugging around yet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

People are continuing to surprise us with little acts of kindness. We\u2019ve taken a few more ferries. We also got a ride across a river with a friendly man in a motorboat who offered to get us across faster rather than waiting for the ferry to come back. People have offered us water, showers, and lots of encouragement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s also still very bright at night! We both woke up last night at 10:45pm, looked at Bill\u2019s watch and were so disoriented because it was so bright outside the tent. We both thought we had somehow slept through the night and it was already 10:45 AM<\/strong>! Bill woke up again at midnight and tried to take a follow-up video showing that the sun doesn\u2019t actually set now that we\u2019re so far north, but it was pretty cloudy:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can kinda tell the sun is still pretty high in the sky behind the clouds. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Today is July 16th. The sun won\u2019t set in Inuvik until July 19th. And even then, it won\u2019t get anywhere close to dark, just kind of a bright dusk. We\u2019ll see if we can get a better video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also took drone footage of a great informal campsite we happily stumbled upon a few nights ago, and also footage showing the vastly different landscape we entered as we moved north \u2014 flat as a pancake and the road is as straight as can be!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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