What
is there to tell about us?
Both, Wil and I were born and grew up in the Netherlands.
After finishing our education (resp. Geology and Library Science) we worked
a number of years in W-Africa (Mauritania and Benin), employed by the United
Nations Development Program.
Now over more than thirty years ago we emigrated to Canada, setting first
foot on Canadian soil in Calgary. Here we lived, played and worked for almost
a quarter of a century.
Our daughters, Kirsti and Lienke, both grew up and went to school in "Cowtown".
Last fall we were delighted
to receive a phone call one evening:
Lienke announcing she and Matt, another biologist, got married that afternoon.
A while ago they had bought a nice house with 20 acres of forest, just outside the City of Whitehorse.
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Last updated 18-dec-09
They
are the proud parents (and we opa and oma) of
HANNAH ELIZABETH and KATE ELSE.
And a few years ago both Kirsti and Lienke moved to or near Whitehorse.
Since we are not too far from Whitehorse (2:15 hrs), we see now both our daughters and granddaughters regularly.
Over the summer Hein
does longer mountainbike rides with his Atlin buddies in and over the mountains
of the Atlin area.
AWESOME!!!
Another (road)biking highlight is the annual Kluane-Chilkat Bike Relay from
Haines Junction (Yukon) to Haines (Alaska). In June 2009 Hein rode the second
leg on a two-person team: 125 km over a pass in the coastal mountains.
And not to forget the 24 hours of Light in Whitehorse: a mountainbike festival
whereby one teammember has to be on the loopcourse all the time. (roughly
it took one hour for each loop)
