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Our Neighbors (& family, eh!) to the North
Tomorrow morning, we'll cross the bridge at Thousand Islands, NY, into Canada, where we'll be spending a couple of weeks parked near Greg's Brother and Sister-in-Law's house, near Ottawa. Greg's sister and her husband will be coming ...
Introduction to Chico and Lil' Bit Paco
So, our class has recently adopted two Chihuahuas, we have chosen to name them Chico and Lil' Bit Paco. Peter has graciously offered to take care of Lil' Bit for the remainder of the school year and summer, so that Chico can come travelling with me to ...
Off to Orlando
We awakened to everything being covered with snow. What a great day to go to Florida! We drove Brian's brother, George and his wife to the airport and flew directly to Orlando. After getting our rental car we headed to our hotel. We discovered several ...
18 Days to Go!
18 sleeps until I leave for five months in India! Have my flights booked, visa and most of my gear figured out (one 35L pack and a Scottevest!). Still working on some details, travel insurance, another round of shots and a long list of fall ...
Crazy in Canada!
We got to our park here near Ottawa on Friday afternoon August 2nd, and got over to Mike & Shar's as soon as possible to hit the pool. Been a great couple of weeks - the first week enjoying amazing meals, lots of pool time, and the Caesar Bar ...
Home again home again jiggety jig!
Well this was the day, the last day of our trip! We left Brian's sister’s about 10:30. It always feels strange to be in Sudbury, a place I called home for 4 years before I was married. The area around the city is hardly recognizable from those ...
One week to go!
Preparations continue apace! Yesterday, Judy and I cleaned out the garage and I took my motorbike for a short ride to work fuel stabilizer into the system for winter storage. Got my final shots on Monday and am heading to the pharmacy to pick ...
On our way
We left home bright and early (well actually dark and early) to get to the Ottawa airport for our 7 AM flight to Vancouver. We flew via Toronto and landed without issue in Vancouver and our luggage all arrived as well. This was a relief as the last ...
Carleton Camping
2008 is Québec City's 400th anniversary and we were there to help celebrate. We spent (8) days in Québec City altogether camping in Beaumont on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River. Each day we took a beautiful scenic 15-minute ferry ride to ...
Hangin with the Macs and Morrisons
... two really cool (sometimes too cool!) girls. Well, they recently bough a 32 foot travel trailer and when I discussed a day trip to Mount Carleton to get to the top of the Maritimes, Tim suggested that, since he was buying a trailer (I didn't know this at ...
Home again
We flew out today to go home through Toronto to Ottawa. We were delayed in leaving Vancouver and had a very short turn around time in Toronto, but did make the flight and surprisingly enough so did our regular bags. However, the skis did not make it. ...
Conclusions about our trip
... that was most surprising to us was California, the poverty, the extreme dryness, -Most surprising incidents – meeting a couple from Carleton Place, not once, but twice. -Most tourist friendly place was Temple Square, Salt Lake City. We even had a ...
Bridge over the Northumberland
We finished off the trip with a visit to the Bottle Houses , another Provincial beach park and a long drive over the 13km Confederation Bridge. So long Ann and the lonely spuds we saw lost on the road from the big trucks. See you all in New ...
Addendum to the trip
We ended our wonderful summer trip slightly sooner than we had planned because we decided to come home for our daughter's birthday, as she will be going to Winnipeg to work for several months. So following her birthday we took a side trip to London to ...
Leaving PEI
10th Sept cont. We arrived at the Visitor Centre at the bridge and caught up with a few things before heading back over the bridge to New Brunswick, where we stopped at the Visitor Centre there too, to finish off a few other things as their internet was ...
Home again
We flew out early morning from Orlando to Detroit on Delta and then on to Ottawa. We arrived in Ottawa about 4 pm. My luggage did not arrive. It took until 8:30 pm the next day before it was delivered. Ho ...
The Great Gaspe
Our last leg of our Canadian journey was to the Gaspesie to meet more relatives on the Poirier side. We drove north thru NB and crossed the bridge into the Gaspesie Peninsula to be greeted by a cousin and her husband who in turn surprised us with a ...
On our way!
We left Almonte shortly after 9 in the morning and had an uneventful drive to Sudbury. There was lots of construction and the road was rough in places. It took us 7 1/2 hours to get to Brian's sister's place in Copper ...
Across the bridge into PEI
7th Sept. After receivng an email from Cat's sister, Ann, asking if we would be going to PEI to visit the sites of Anne of Green Gables fame, we decided that we would go anyway – to hell with the cost! We left the Visitor Centre and crossed the ...
Oceanside Activities
We crossed over the bridge to the south side of the St Lawrence River and headed east to pick up Hwy 132, which does a complete loop of the Gaspe Peninsula. As we headed south east the road follows the Matapedia River through the “Valley”. ...
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