I didn't want to pack (or wear) too many things to slow and weigh us down, but I wanted to dress warm enough to keep the minus-15 degree weather out of my face, hands, and body. ...
At one of the stops we made, I wanted to acknowledge my feelings about this and said, "Malikngama tangevkanritliut?" What if the caribou aren't letting themselves be seen because I came along? Daniel reassured that my tagging along didn't have anything to do with not spotting the caribou yet.
My excitement was getting more and more dampened as we ventured out further south and east. A few times, my thoughts veered toward the comment "Close by." I know I heard those words and I heard them a few times, in fact. I found out that men's definition and women's definition of "close by" vary by more than several miles.
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