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Decades later, when he returned as a New York Times correspondent, Malcolm discovered that Canada was more different than ever. In subsequent voyages by car, jet, helicopter and dog sled, he found an immense, diverse continent-country, thinly populated by a talented but strangely self-deprecating people. The sheer size of their land is intimidating: its smallest province. Prince Edward Island, is almost twice the size of Rhode Island; to drive west from Toronto to the next large Canadian city, Winnipeg, takes 36 hours nonstop. Canadians, he learned, are literally a nation apart, their identity splintered by endless geography into...
...most memorable experience with The Blanks has been the yearly trip we make to a cabin in Vermont during intercession. It’s in the middle of nowhere, it’s unbelievably quiet, and there’s virtually nothing to do but play music or sled, so it’s an amazing place to focus on writing music together. Needless to say, you have to be pretty tight to survive a week in a cabin together...
...life as interesting, but since I've retired, I've been able to do more of the interesting part," says Charlie Berger, a retired veterinarian who, upon moving to East Bettford, Vt., took two Alaskan wolves with him. In his spare time he volunteers to tend the dogs in sled races, such as the Iditarod that runs from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and he leads adventure--natural history tours to remote areas of North America. This past November he went to Churchill, on the Hudson Bay in Canada, to take 14 souls to see polar bears. Last year...
What's next for Berger? Dog-sled-racing season and then, next summer, the Phelon River, one of the most remote waterways on earth. "One of my good friends said, 'Berger, this is not a rehearsal.' If you've got to retire and have nothing, it's a bit like dying. But if you have visions and ideas of what you're going to do--and those can be as simple as reading and walking--retirement can be the most energizing part of life...
...dogs and you can keep the rest." So said Knut Rasmussen, the Dane who explored Greenland in the early 20th century. If you, like Rasmussen, feel the call of the wild, consider driving your own canine crew on holiday: one afternoon managing the tangle of tugging harnesses and sled brakes as the huskies yelp and yowl, and you may never get back in your car. The dogs can run up to 5,000 km in a season, often through snow crystals at -25˚C. "There is a strong feeling of being dependent on the small but incredibly strong huskies...