Carleton, Canada Travel Blogs

Our Neighbors (& family, eh!) to the North
Jul 3, 2008 (1 photos)

  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
Apr 14, 2008 (1 photos)

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 ...

Home again home again jiggety jig!
Sep 13, 2009 (19 photos)

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 days. ...

On our way
Nov 25, 2009 (6 photos)

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
Aug 6, 2008 (36 photos)

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 Québec ...

Home again
Dec 1, 2009

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. They ...

Conclusions about our trip
Sep 26, 2009

... 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 ...

Addendum to the trip
Sep 26, 2009

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 ...