Where are they?

The innkeep in this place doesn't know me very well and was trying to sell me some expensive new drink he's had shipped in from a place called Good Mead, I told him I just wanted his cheapest drink but he started explaining all about how he'd been trying to get his brother Scramsax to send some down from Ten Towns for months.
 
Ten Towns. I don't know how I've not stumbled across the name before but as soon as I it - well it struck a nerve and I spent far more than I wanted buying more and more of this stupid mead just to get the innkeep to tell me more about the place. Bryn Shander. Kelvin's Cairne. The Sea of Moving Ice. I've never heard of these places before and yet I knew the names before he spoke them. I'm from Icewind Dale and more importantly so are my family.
 
Part of the reason he was so excited about the mead is that he wasn't sure the shipment would get through before the pass was blocked. Apparently sometimes in the worst winters it can be impassible for a few weeks at a time so I''ve quit the job I had with the caravan and spent the spent the last of my coin on some winter gear and snow shoes, I even had to sell some of the equipment and supplies I've built up.
 
I'm setting out for Icewind Dale in the morning.