On the Road Again (again) heading to Bouchercon

[Vicki Delany]

I'm in Port Hardy, B.C. tonight, waiting to catch tomorrow's Ferry to Prince Rupert. From there I'll drive up to Anchorage for Bouchercon. It's a long trip, but one I've wanted to do for a long time. Three years ago my mother and I spent a week in the Yukon. We didn't see a thing - the smoke from forest fires was so thick that in all the time we were there (and we drove from Whitehorse to Dawson City via Tok, AK) we didn't see a mountain. We kept looking at pictrues of what we were supposed to be seeing. We did see a tree at the side of the road fully engulfed in flames, so that was pretty spectacular. I am really looking foward to Bouchercon and the whole Alaska experience. I'm going to a school in Tenakee Springs, where I'll do a community event on night as well, to a school in Anchorage and to the public library in Palmer. My panel is Saturday afternoon at 1:00 and it's called The Longest Undefenced Border, about how U.S. politics influence us as Canadian writers. If you're coming to Boucercon, please say HI