Photos: with Ros Oberlyn on the Malecon, La Paz, Mexico & Crag Lake parka
During my brief stint as an inn keeper in Baja, three winters ago, I had one of those amazing Yukon coincidences. One of my neighbours said there was a woman who liked to winter in La Paz who also had a Yukon connection. So when she walked past the inn a few weeks later, I had a vague recollection of her smiling face. For anyone living in the Yukon in the late 1980's, Ros Oberlyn would be a familiar sight since she was a CBC TV reporter. Turned out she had an apartment on the next block from me. Most memorable all those years ago was Ros' outside winter stories because she wore a stunning purple and red beaded parka. This may have been one of the first things I asked her once I found out that soon she would take up permanent residence in Mexico "What will become of your parka?" We negotiated the repatriation of the parka back to the north under a polka-doted palm tree while eating rose pedal and corn ice cream. Quite a surreal and lovely memory.
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