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A LONG WAY FOR A DOG

Retiring an old dog from his job pulling sleds in the Arctic and heading off in a beat up truck for a 6000 mile roadtrip around Europe.

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LUKE CHASE in A LONG WAY FOR A DOG

May 14, 2016

Sayonara Scandinavia

Many hundreds of miles have passed since I have last written. It feels like seasons have gone by since I was at the farm…

Don’t forget your…chainsaw

I drove through the night; The long empty curves of the Dales bathed in moonlight, and on through sleeping towns where the light fell from the street lamps and fractured on the tarmac.

Inception

This time last year I had just returned home from a winter spent working with around 160 huskies on a remote farm far above the Arctic Circle in Northern Finland. The season had been challenging. Long days of working in cold that could freeze your eyelids closed was unquestionably tough but unexpectedly I had…