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1879: travel in Iceland
Photo courtesy of: http://blessiblog.blogspot.ca/2012/11/have-icelandic-will-travel.html
How hard was it for your ancestors to get from their farm to the harbour where they would meet the ship that would take them on the first leg of their journey to Amerika?
Rodwell was in Iceland, the summer of 1879. He describes his trip. He’s traveling at the same time as some of our ancestors were making their trip over the mountain passes, through the lava fields, past the glacier covered mountains, over the bogs. Unfortunately, I don’t have a diary from my Great Grandparents describing their journey. However, I have Rodwell’s report in Nature.
This is what he says:
Climate.
No Climate Change, Nosiree
Photo: Dennis Anderson. Dennis and Nina’s back yard. No, not Whitehorse. Tucson, Arizona.
My friends, Dennis Anderson and Nina Lee Colwill, go to Tucson every winter to escape from -42 with-a-windchill Manitoba for a few months. Most of the time the narrative that returns via email is one of blue skies, warm winds, flowers, sunshine. The pictures are delicious. The cacti look good enough to eat.
Photo” Dennis Anderson. Yup, that’s a cactus with snow falling on it.
This year it was different. This is the year that will send orange prices so high that you will hold your children in your arms and say to them,
The Caragana Hedge
When I was a boy, now more than half a century ago, there was a lot of snow. When I
