Not many folks that are not of British origin may remember that today is Guy Fawkes day and there will be bonfires burning across Britian tonight. For those of you that don't recognize the name Guy Fawkes and a group of fellow conspiritors attempted to blow up the British Parilment and came very close to exceeding. Their plot was discovered and foiled and for his efforts Guy was hung and drawn and quatered, the pieces being send to every corner of Great Britian.

Today is also the begining of Remembrance week from the 5th. till the 11th of November. Very important week as we need to remember the dead of two world wars and quite a few other conflicts. These Veterans bought our freedom with their lives and this we must always remember and respect.

Today also the Olympic torch began travelling across the NWT and ther rest of Canada. All and all 12,000  people will carry the torch across Canada, each carrying the torch for 300 metres I believe. Our friend Conrad was a torch bearer in Yellowknife today a cancer survivor  congratulations Conrad first for suviving and second for making the run. those that carried the torch were allowed to buy them at a very reasonable rate and unfortunatelythe whole affair meant so much to some that their torches arealready for sale on E-bay. Personally I  think this shows very poor form, just my opinion.

Snow has been lightly falling over the past 24 hours and this week end I will ski for the first time in a few years and that should be interesting (I bought a helmet.)

I am now almost 7.6 million steps into the TCT virtual walk and heading for Saskatoon. The virtual sailing races are going well and I am gaining in the Jules Verne record attempt and dropping back slowly in the Clipper globe. Still making good time just a little slower than those ahead of myself. Our line from Rio to Capetown in the clipper crosses the doldrums from west to east and we are constantly running into holes into the wind.

Unbelievable not reallly but rain in Yellowknife in November. This certainly makes a mess of everything. Better today than yesterday where it would have made a really mess of the Torch run.