Near the end of the video when they are getting close to their destination they show Church Point, where we actually lived. Our house was just over the hill on the other side. As a matter of fact, the picture I have at the top of my blog here, is taken at that churchs cemetery where Layne and Rauchelle loved to go, and many of the children rolled down the hills there.
We aren't fanatics of Farley Mowat s writings. We ve read a few, and watched "Never Cry Wolf", and drove past his house to see where he lived. Everette even ran into him at the post office, and my friend s husband won a bid when the Farley Mowat was up For Sale (but he cancelled his bid, cuz what does one do with a big ship like that in your backyard, hey Jennifer?) but I was taken more by the fact of them doing a cross-country journey more difficult than ours, and ending up in the very same town. I thought that was cool, and we could identify with much of the scenery that they experienced except for the up-north and Newfoundland aspects. Obviously theirs was a much slower paced journey fraught with bugs beyond belief (right there, I'd bail) and were more fit, likely, than when they began. I wouldn't be doing that journey with our children, that's for sure, but maybe one of our children will want to do it themselves when they are older. They certainly enjoyed the film, and identifying with some of the scenes. They have a good taste and feel for this big land, and I'm so glad we have given that experience to them. And experienced it for ourselves too.
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