Life in the Knife » Traveling http://lifeintheknife.com My personal account of my life adventures in the North! Featuring photos, videos accompanied by commentary and stories about my experiences, my observations, my point of view, and general life in the North stuff. Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:07:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 A Winter Ice Road Truck Adventure http://lifeintheknife.com/a-winter-ice-road-truck-adventure/ http://lifeintheknife.com/a-winter-ice-road-truck-adventure/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:02:26 +0000 Shane http://lifeintheknife.com/?p=2367 This weekend I traveled up the Winter Ice Roads made famous by the popular television series the Ice Road Truckers with my friends Troy and Josh. Our winter ice road adventure was [...]

]]> http://lifeintheknife.com/a-winter-ice-road-truck-adventure/feed/ 1 Escape to Hawaii Part 2: Maui http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-hawaii-part-2-maui/ http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-hawaii-part-2-maui/#comments Sun, 10 Oct 2010 21:49:26 +0000 Shane http://lifeintheknife.com/?p=2245 After a few days of the slow-mo life on Big Island we spontaneously island hopped to Maui (via Hawaiian Airlines) for what became the second part of our Escape to Hawaii. We were immediately greeted by a different kind of Hawaiian spirit. Whereas the Big Island was quiet, [...]

]]> http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-hawaii-part-2-maui/feed/ 0 Escape to Hawaii Part 1: the Big Island http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-hawaii-part-1-the-big-island/ http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-hawaii-part-1-the-big-island/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2010 08:03:57 +0000 Shane http://lifeintheknife.com/?p=2214 When one needs to escape the north… one looks for the sun. The summer of 2010 was no exception – and Hawaii was the destination. Our journey began on the Big Island of Hawaii (otherwise officially known as the Island of Hawai’i)… It is the island [...]

]]> http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-hawaii-part-1-the-big-island/feed/ 3 Escape to Las Vegas Part 3: The Grand Canyon Tour http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-las-vegas-part-3-the-grand-canyon-tour/ http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-las-vegas-part-3-the-grand-canyon-tour/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:43:59 +0000 Shane http://lifeintheknife.com/?p=1915 There are many destinations on my things to do before I die list. And one of them ‘was’ to experience the mighty Grand Canyon in Arizona, United States - which is one of the natural wonders of the world. Having only seen the Grand Canyon in movies and in pictures I [...]

]]> http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-las-vegas-part-3-the-grand-canyon-tour/feed/ 1 Escape to Las Vegas Part 2: People Watching http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-las-vegas-part-2-people-watching/ http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-las-vegas-part-2-people-watching/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:37:39 +0000 Shane http://lifeintheknife.com/?p=1873 On my recent Escape to Las Vegas, an essential escape from the isolation, one of my favorite things to do was people watching. Anyone who has been to Las Vegas knows there are a lot of people to watch. People from all around the world converge on Las Vegas to escape from their [...]

]]> http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-las-vegas-part-2-people-watching/feed/ 5 Escape to Las Vegas Part 1: The Strip http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-las-vegas-part-1-the-strip/ http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-las-vegas-part-1-the-strip/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:45:55 +0000 Shane http://lifeintheknife.com/?p=1854 Need to escape Yellowknife? When living in Yellowknife – or in the far north – the feeling of isolation tends to encourage the escape mentality more than those people living in populated areas down south (where access to everything and anything is as simple as hopping into a car for a [...]

]]> http://lifeintheknife.com/escape-to-las-vegas-part-1-the-strip/feed/ 5 Moving to Yellowknife http://lifeintheknife.com/moving-to-yellowknife/ http://lifeintheknife.com/moving-to-yellowknife/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:39:21 +0000 Shane http://lifeintheknife.com/?p=270 Looking for adventure? Looking to get away from the rest of planet earth? Looking for something different? Looking for opportunity? Then start looking north for a change.

One day in Fall 2007, I was exploring my Facebook friends profiles and noticed that one of them was [...]

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