Arboreal Solace Bed & Breakfast Edmonton

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So, what have we been vaccinated against???

Yellow Fever (all)
Seasonal Flu (all)
H1N1 (all)
Hepatitis A (L&A)(D&S already done)
Hepatitis B (all)
Typhoid (L&A)(D&S already done)
Polio (S)(D,L&A already done)
Rabies (L&A)

Seems like a lot of poking going on, but we saved ourselves 3 shots each and ~$1500 by deciding not to have vaccinations for Japanese Encephalitis ...

... Canadian Football League) match between the Edmonton Eskimo's and the Calgary Stampeder's (bitter rivals), I little realised just how much there was to do in Edmonton. After a lovely meal of salad and BBQ'd salmon (on cedar planks), Dana's Aunt Jude turned up and after a little persuasion agreed to come camping with Dana and I to Jasper.

Next day after much organising and packing, we eventually left Edmonton a little after midday with everything bar the kitchen sink and drove ...

... freezes as hard as rock.

Winter camping
I wanted to experience some winter camping, although I was sensible enough to wait for what passes for spring in Alberta. I was cautious too - pitching my tent close to the car in case of emergencies. That was where my good sense stopped.

I went out to Elk Island, which was still mostly buried under knee deep snow at the end of March. Because I was only going for a night I cooked dinner before I left, but packed ...

... the mountains are. We stopped in Hinton to call on NAIT (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology but the offices were closed for a week. Oh well, we plugged the address of the Choice hotel in Edmonton into the GPS and it talked us out onto Hwy 16 heading in the right direction (a short cut). If we had not had the GPS, I would probably have gone back the way we came. The GPS is a neat unit but you really have to watch it ...

... out lil bundles of joy And live happily ever after. Which is a Great dream However Its a dream I myself Have Rarely seen materialize. The more Common Situation is You date a bunch of losers/ Are single and lonely and never truly have enough Free time To get to know someone. When you Finally Do meet someone that seems Alright and since your getting older and everyone around you seems to be doing the same thing and keep suggesting you "settledown ...

... about $1000! A ridiculous amount to fly within your own country! And then Canada goes and makes it even harder by being generally backpacker-unfriendly. Hostels are few and far between, so they book up quickly. Even in Gros Morne, Newfoundland a MONTH ahead of time, in the off season, the hostel we wanted was already booked up! And then there's our biggest headache - lack of transportation. I don't ...

... Ok i think you get the idea but its huge!! Though admittedly the best part was hooters! As its halloween night and all thats pretty big over here they were all dressed up! I think i may have found my future wife - i wish! Anyway sit back and enjoy the pics!! Not too much though!!

I'm back in Canada now, having finished up my South American trip after almost 10 months. It was great, but I was ready to come home. Here's the rundown of my last few weeks in Rio, mostly to do with the Pan Am games. The Games turned out to be both better and worse than I had thought. My spot was working outside at the complex that held the swimming pool, for swimming and diving competitions, and the multiuse arena, where gymnastics and basketball were ...

... the other one So this is a small excerpt from a diary of the alien. I have been watching Battlestar Galactica lately and it has been playing wonderful fantasies in my imagination. Sometimes I wonder what it would be like...to live in a space that we couldn't know. Ah. That is so far from our comprehension. Today I went to yoga and it was a lifesaver. Julie was our instructor and I swear she was zooming through the class JUST-for ...

... team was flown down to the trip advisor headquarters for meetings. It was a lot of fun to work in an office of people all in the travel industry. I was really productive and it was fun to see a bit of a city I had never been to before. I had some mouthwatering seafood and even got to meet up with a friend I had met traveling some time ago. Luc and I were treated to a Red Sox game at Fenway. We had fantastic seats ...