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Ian 's been playing too , including two concerts with the orchestra ( plus out of town performances in Rotorua ) , a jazz trio gig or two , the clarinet quartet ( more often a trio or even duet ) that meets weekly ( in principle ) at our house , and an occasional practice with the Hamilton Big Band . But nature is harsh , and hard to comprehend . After one of those trips from hell where you find yourself stranded in the US , wearing only shorts , T-shirt and sandals , carrying only a computer ( no toothbrush , sweater , or clean undies ) , at an airport thousands of miles from anywhere on your itinerary , getting to a hotel at 1 AM ( after a long argy-bargy with airline officials ) and being collected from it at 4 AM , with a dinner voucher and a breakfast voucher ( only to be used on that day , at that hotel ) , he eventually arrived at Calgary and set off in search of Anna . Without their help both girls would have been without a vehicle - - and public transport is virtually non-existent here . But only just . ( And , late in realizing the problem , we had to steal it from a friend 's backyard at dead of night , a kind of first footing in reverse - - but that 's another story . But our party staunchly made the most of it , and again returned with plenty of stories - - and plenty of liquid lubrication - - for our joint post-trip debriefing . He and Nikki both felt a bit queasy . Our host and hostess , very personable people , invited us into their house for a wee dram of strong home-made " wine , " either white ( gooseberry liqueur ) or red ( rhubarb liqueur ) . They know their stock by heart - - no catalogs or computers - - and we chatted for an hour . Alberta continues to woo back its native sons in the area of high technology , and though Ian is not native ( nor , thankfully , " high " ) he apparently counts as such . Six and a half weeks away , seven separate visits to London airports , fourteen flights , plus trips by train , hired car , long-distance bus - - has to be some kind of a ghastly record . The traffic instantly backed up for miles ; the tunnel was quickly closed to all traffic ( both directions ) ; an emergency vehicle roared down towards them on the wrong side of the road and gave them a nerve-wracking bumper-to-bumper push , accelerating to 50 mph , out of the tunnel . We lowered the mainsail and bore off under jib to seek shelter , but Beulah handled so well under jib alone that we decided to continue . At one point we stumbled by accident across aboriginal rock carvings showing pictures of kangaroos and whales ( in one picture , both together ) - - which apparently remain unadvertised to help preserve them by reducing visitors . Plus large bearish paw-prints on the riverbank , and eagles wheeling hungrily overhead . As the day progressed both wind and waves increased alarmingly , to 35-38 knots and around 3 metres respectively . We found one or two of the dead ones , but not many .