Through a series of events I still don’t fully understand, I spent my first night in Yellowknife staying in the cabin of the friend of a friend of a lady called Kim I met once over dinner at Jennifer and Alvin’s place. Anyway, I stayed in the cabin of this lady Dawn I never met or spoke to in the old Woodyard area of Yellowknife, which is famous for having lots of higgledy-piggledy cabins squashed into a little area. It’s right by Great Slave Lake and it’s a very cool place.

This is what you call a cabin.

❤

It’s even got electricity.

No outsiders, though.

And then along fifty feet of boardwalk…

…is Great Slave Lake, complete with floating houses.

And a pile of communal canoes.

Later, I climbed a big hill at the back of town.

Yellowknife’s most famous street.

NWT has the best licence plates.

Surprisingly, Yellowknife also has a really good Ethiopian restaurant.

Though I couldn’t escape the summer’s awful weather, even if it was only while I was eating dinner.

And that’s all you’re getting.

Total distance hitchhiked: 13214 km.
Total number of rides: 105.