made it back home! 2400km since i left my house a week and a half ago, plus another 250 before that with the banner... so 2650ish total
just drove 1000km, stopping only for gas, ate in the truck while driving... crazy long drive... dumb drivers, temperature swings of 22 degrees (0 to 22*, 39*F swing) and engine temperature swings of 30*, after reaching full operating temp... (hit 121* going up a hill, then dropped down to 91 going down the hill [250F-196F]) had the overheat light pop on for about 10 seconds as i crested the hill
even saw a few things i've never seen before... i'm almost 100% sure i can say i saw the northern lights, i was about 55km outside of the next town, and about 120 out of the previous one, don't know of any settlements in the bush in that area, and certainly not anything big enough to light it up that bright, but green lights, behind the clouds, the clouds were dark, in the northern sky, they moved a little, then disappeared as i drove... never seen them before, just amazing... DG, i tried to get pics of it, but they weren't bright enough for my phone to pick them up, if i had my nikon with me, i would have pulled over on the highway to take pics...
after that, i saw what might be a UFO... a strange orange light, hovering above the forest in the middle of nowhere... it seemed to shine light outwards, but not give off much light... ie, it was dim, but the fog around it, and below it was bright... stationary, not far from me, i couldn't see a tower or anything, never seen a tower there before, and the light didn't seem bright enough to be warning planes, it was MUCH dimmer than any of the towers i had seen, and the wrong color, all of ours are either white strobing, or a definitive red, this was an odd shade of orange... i'll pull up some areal shots of where i saw it, and see if there's a tower that i have never noticed before...
took a bunch more pics... will post them probably tomorrow
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