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P is for Polar Bear: My A to Z Wish List

April 18, 2012 By: Patricia

I wish I could go see the polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba in Northern Canada. There was an article in our local paper this weekend by someone who’d made the trip, so I’ve been thinking about it again.

Churchill has been on my bucket list forever, but it’s a very expensive adventure. I’ve always had some other priority.

Might be a cool place to set a thriller. Then it would be research, right?

Or perhaps if my “L is for Lottery” wish ever comes true…

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Comments

  1. Ann Best says

    April 19, 2012 at 4:57 am

    Polar bears. What awesome creatures! I’m with you on wanting to do this.

    And I love your L for Lottery! Yay!!

    I saw that you had retweeted one of my posts. Thank you! I’m having a difficult time this month commenting as I had to put my daughter for a few days the end of March in what they used to call the Psych Ward (it’s now Behavioral Health, which is better), and have been trying to help her get out of her mental cloud. She’s on good meds now and they’re working. She’s finally able to sleep well at night, and her moods have leveled (she’s in early onset menopause, hot flashes etc. We women all know about this!) So it’s a good thing I did all my posts in March or I wouldn’t be posting anything! Just to let you know why I haven’t been around. I hope to do catch up as, hopefully, maybe after another “family” blow yesterday, I can do it. (Life does sometime whack us!) Your posts will be on my list. They are always wonderful and right to the point! You are such a good writer!!
    Ann Best, Author of In the Mirror & Other Memoirs

  2. Medeia Sharif says

    April 18, 2012 at 10:46 pm

    That would be an interesting trip. It would be research.

  3. Name: Luana Krause says

    April 18, 2012 at 7:58 pm

    Polar bears are beautiful. I’ve seen them at the Denver zoo. Never in the wild…don’t think I’d want to see one in the wild.

  4. Jemi Fraser says

    April 18, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    I’d love to go with you! Polar bears are such wonderful animals! ๐Ÿ™‚

  5. Pat Tillett says

    April 18, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    It sounds like it would be an awesome thing to do!

  6. welcome to my world of poetry says

    April 18, 2012 at 2:34 pm

    Hope you make it to Churchill Patricia. Good P post.

    Yvonne.

  7. carol says

    April 18, 2012 at 1:08 pm

    An A to Z wish list- what a cool idea. I’m not sure if Manitoba would be on my list- I’m just not a cold weather girl.

  8. Laura says

    April 18, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    That would be a great trip – I love your research idea… now get a creative grant and you’ll be laughing!

  9. Gail M Baugniet - Author says

    April 18, 2012 at 12:43 pm

    Visiting Polar Bears is an exciting goal. I love traveling to places that can serve as a backdrop for a novel. Everything becomes an adventure.
    http://gail-baugniet.blogspot.com Theme: A World of Crime

  10. Lynn Proctor says

    April 18, 2012 at 11:05 am

    the trip sounds lovely–isn’t it a shame that money has to get in the way sometimes

  11. Patricia Stoltey says

    April 18, 2012 at 9:04 am

    Isn’t it amazing how attracted many of us are to creatures like polar bears and pandas…is it their beauty?

  12. Jo says

    April 18, 2012 at 7:03 am

    Better go soon, polar bears are an endangered species as their habitats are disappearing. I have always wanted to go there too, and I live in Canada.

  13. Tracy says

    April 18, 2012 at 7:01 am

    Patricia,
    It sounds like a great adventure…what a fun activity on your bucket list!

  14. Talli Roland says

    April 18, 2012 at 6:59 am

    I have a friend who used to work for the local Churchill paper. One day he went into work and the whole place – including the printing presses — was just empty! His employers had packed up and moved to Mexico.

    Such is life in Churchill!

  15. Sara Hill says

    April 18, 2012 at 6:55 am

    Ah hah! An adventurous sort you are. Hope your dream comes true. I don’t care about the bears, but I’d like to see the aurora borealis.

  16. Eric says

    April 18, 2012 at 6:39 am

    If you get to go, take me along as a “research assistant”. I’m very good at taking orders and I’m sure I can contribute adequately enough to a thriller involving polar bears ๐Ÿ™‚

  17. Margot Kinberg says

    April 18, 2012 at 6:01 am

    Pat – Oh, what a neat idea for a trip! I don’t blame you at all for wanting to go. And yes, I can definitely see a mystery set there. Hmmmm…

Meet Patricia

I read, I write, I blog, and sometimes I do the laundry and cook. My 2014 novel, Dead Wrong, was a finalist in the thriller category of the 2015 Colorado Book Awards. Wishing Caswell Dead (Five Star/Cengage, December 20, 2017) is a historical mystery set in 1830s Illinois in the fictitious Village of Sangamon. The novel was a finalist for the 2018 Colorado Book Awards for General Fiction. Read Moreโ€ฆ

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