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What is there to tell about us?
Both, Wil and I were born and grew up in the Netherlands.
After finishing our education (resp. for Geologist and Librarian) we worked in W-Africa (Mauritania and Benin) a number of years for the United Nations Development Fund.
Now almost thirty years ago we decided to emigrate to Canada. We first set foot on Canadian soil in Calgary, where we ended up staying for almost a quarter of a century.
Here our daughters, Kirsti and Lienke, grew up and went to school.

While we explored the North, Kirsti and Lienke went their ways. Kirsti ended up living in Inuvik (NorthWestTerritories) where she met the love of her life: Mike Muller, a biologist.
They got married on a beautiful day in the summer of 2002 on a bluff overlooking the MacKenzie delta.

Lienke and Matt Clarke, her boyfriend, have now moved up North as well. Lienke has found employment with the Yukon Government and Matt is a wildlife biologist. They have rented a cosy loghouse in the woods just outside the City of Whitehorse.
Lienke has been also quite a world traveller: having trekked for 6 months through New Zealand and Australia, she explored Costa Rica and went back to New Zealand and Australia twice to recruite Kiwi's and Ozzie's for her employer at the time: Canada Olympic Park in Calgary: the site of the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.

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Last updated 7-jan-08

In October 2003 they became the proud parents (and we opa and oma) of
HANNAH ELIZABETH: a healthy daughter.
In January 2005 they moved to Whitehorse , only a two hours by car from us.
In August 2005 KATE ELSE saw for the first time her sister Hannah.

Since we are not too far from Whitehorse (only just over 2 hrs. drive) we see now both our daughters and granddaughters regularly.

Another one of our yearly events is the Klondike Relay in September: a footrace from Skagway (AK) to Whitehorse (YT). In 2007 only Hein ran his middle-of-the-night leg, so no pictures!

A week later Hein and Lienke participated with a 4-person team in a 24 hrs. mountainbike event, in which at all times during the 24 hrs. some teammember has to be on the bike. Tough, especially during the night, but fun

In August of 2007 we also found ourselves a new puppy: Frodo. He is a Golden Retriever, on this picture about 7 weeks old.

Wil started us off in the morning on leg 1 and 2 (58.5 Km.) , Lienke picked the first mountainstages (leg 3 and 4 = 53.1 km), Hein rode across the pass in leg 5 +6 (58.4 km) and Kirsti finished up in the afternoon after having completed leg7 and 8 for 68.3 km.

The rest of the pictures are some other random activities in which we engage throughout the year: XC skiing, hiking, canoeing, kayakking, sailing.