I got up early the next morning to head out. I wanted to get as far as my cabin that day and home the next. I was at the portage to Snowbank before the sun was up. Taking out at the Snowbank Entry Point the guy from VNO that had rented me the Spot was dropping a woman off for her first ever solo. She was excited. I wished her a good trip and I headed home.

  Back at Voyageur North they told me the planes were just doing the normal prescribed burn thing. Nothing out of the ordinary.

My wife loved the messages from the Spot. It made her feel like part of the trip. I sent a message every day after I'd made camp. Next time I'm going to send a message from every lake, maybe even every portage, as well as every camp. She printed all the maps for me.