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I am, Russ... right now I am having a blast in Whitehorse. I went to the little town of Atlin on Sunday and there, I visited an old cemetary. On many of the head"stones" (being that they were all made of wood) there were not just names but also age and the cause of death noted.

What a moving experience it was to me. There was the grave site of two babies, born to the same Japanese family, one year apart… on living 2 days and one a few months. There was the grave of the Mail Carrier who drowned while delivering the mail, age 23… or the 17 year old boy who was shot, because he was mistake for a bear. Many did not live long enough to have a family, some made it to mid-age and a few lived to be very old…

It was something that made me think quite a bit again, sombering and showing how harsh it must have been to live here a hundred years ago… considering hat it still is not easy to make it around here… even with all the technology that surrounds us nowadays. At the other side of the street, there was a street sign that said “Airport” on one side and “Cemetary” on the other… two things that are often very closely related as well, I thought when I took the picture…