Rebecca Melquist:  

From the last time I saw anybody I've done quite a bit.. I've been a cowgirl.. a beauty queen.. done a lot of travelling around this province and the Yukon and.NWT.. I've owned a bar.. my own construction company.. was the first woman to get my journeyman papers in spray insulation.. Got married had.three kids.. my first born is a boy who was born with a bowel defect.. we spent almost two years in and out of VGH children's hospital.. Had identical twin girls.. got rear-ended by a drunk driver broke my neck... my dad died.. Travelled to inuvik NWT where I lived and worked for about three years.. where I saw the northern lights for the first time that I remembered.. Travelled.the Dempster highway and broke down... later watched as the rescue vehicle caught fire and blew up.. Learned how to parachute while there and my first jump qualified as a night jump.. midnight sun and all.. Went to Mexico for a couple of months.. hitchhiked back up the Dempster in Jan.. Left inuvik in early summer hitchhiking.. got to Dawson city and canoed south to North down the Yukon river.. took a week.. to a place called eagle Alaska... spent lots of time exploring ghost towns and camps.. got a ride back on a hydrofoil.. took three hours.. Got another ride to the border of the NWT and Alberta... the northern lights were gorgeous there even though it was still midnight lights.. Lived in Edmonton for awhile.then moved to the base in Grand Centre with my brother and his family.. did way too many crazy things there.. whe...Expand for more