Canada
Travel Blogs from Canada
Planning and more planning
Going to work everyday is getting harder and harder. Mondays are the worst. Andrew and I delay getting up and invariably one of us says "Wow, this work thing is really getting in the way of our trip planning!" We somehow manage to get ourselves up, ...
First day alone
... re gonna go pick up a lotto ticket and cross our fingers that we'll win (what an inconvenience that would be to have to return to Canada to claim our winnings huh? haha) Wish us luck! So long for now Canada! P.S. Suck it Saskatchewan! Montreal rules! haha ...
Home
After a long evening out, that involved stops in random bars on the way home and me arriving back at the campsite with a sign advertising a house we got up early and headed off to Merrit. The others were off to the Merrit Music Fest, a very Country ...
Back to Blighty....
Firstly, check out the pictures we have just posted on the US and Canada updates. All good things must come to an end: 27 flights down, two to go as we head back to Blighty tomorrow. We hope you have enjoyed reading these updates as much as we have ...
Back to the source
Back to the source, to remember who I was when I left months ago. Refocus and spring back towards the South ...
Side trip to Montreal
I have a High School friend who lives in Montreal. Nick wanted me to stick around for an extra week in Kingston so that we could spend Thanksgiving together. So I went to visit Monique for a few days. She started her own business, EnergieNow ...
Victoria's Chinatown
We decided to go into town so that we could buy ingredients to make some veggie dumplings(wontons) for dinner in Chinatown. We found a great little chinese grocery with everything you can need for a authentic chinese meal. We explored the little shops ...
Home!
Still in TO!
We are still here so nothing exciting to report. Had a bit of a scare on the weekend when I took a misstep off a ladder and sprained my ankle. Her a sickening crunch and pop before the blinding pain took over. Thankfully a few days of ice rest and ...
Bears as far as the eye can see..
I had done a few quick runs through Jasper before, and been to Banff so I hadnt thought too much about the Rockies before arriving. When we did arrive it was overcast and cold and we could see bits of snow around. We picked up the car and headed ...
Directions to Church (Commissioning Service)
Hey Everyone, Here are the directions to the Bethel Evangelical Missionary Church, where my commissioning service will be. Take Highway 2 North out of Calgary. Take the Cremona Exit (Near Carstairs) and head west. The Church will be 10 - 15 ...
Flying? surely thats cheating...?
By the time you read this you would know that Bush won again and probably glad that all the media coverage is over? Well if you think it was bad in England spare a thought for us in America. The two parties pr and marketing people are so good that we ...
Week Forty Three - Vancouver
Week Forty Three - The Quay, Vancouver Day 279 - Tuesday 15 June Head off towards Vancouver. We have booked another round at Furry Creek. Another glorious day in BC. The course was as good as we remembered. This time Geoff is victorious. Opus Hotel ...
Hunting and Skiing
We set forth to kill an elk and while we did ultimately fail in that respect the slaughter of a moose was enough to sate our bloodlust. Jerrod and I dropped a moose at650 yards, he hit it in the rear ankle and i shot it right below the front right ...
No bears, oh my!
... beautiful Lake Louise on the way to Banff. This is one of the places I had been meaning to go to since I even thought I might come to Canada so it was great to get there, and see that its just as pretty as the pictures look! In Banff we went on a two ...
From West to East...
Alex: We loosened our overland ethic a little and flew from Vancouver to Toronto - it was a 4 hour flight or a 72 hour Greyhound ride! Got into the Toronto Hostel absolutely whacked - although it had only been a 4 hour flight we had pretty much lost a ...
Small..."Medium"...or Large?
Narrow...Psychic...or Visionary? Last night I watched this TV show called Medium. It's been on TV for a couple of years but this was the first time I watched it. The premise of the show is that the principal character can see the past, ...
Saturday morning - WOW
Saturday 19th April 2008 Today we woke up to blue sky and beautiful white snow! There had been a heavy fall of snow over night and it had become increasingly colder as the day went on so we were not really surprised. We seemed ...
MOUNTAINS AND MORE HOOK-UPS
... cut for me. Mm, mm, the sandwiches were tasty. My pb&j-making skills, acquired over a whole summer of cross-Canada low-budget dieting, shone as bright as the glacial green that rushed through the river beside us. The energy consumed carried us ...
Sunday 20 April
Sunday 20th April We have been in Canada a week today! We have luxuriated in our surroundings this weekend and have made the most of all the facilities in this RV park. This morning we went to have a swim in the pool here at ...
Tomorrow....
Hey kids, So I am using this travelpoding as a means to keep in touch with everyone as I head off for another set of travels. I promise to try to keep my updates concise and hopefully interesting. But I am not making any promises. Delete, scan or ...
First Mountainous Days
I have been out in the mountains for over a week now and definitely experienced an entire spectrum of weather. We arrived in Calgary to brilliantly clear blue skys and frigid temperatures which quickly changed to days of endless wintery mix ...
In Which We Prepare to Leave
Well, Nick and I are getting ready for our trip to England next month. I don't know about him, but I've started packing already. I've been taking each of my five nieces and nephews on a big trip, usually around their 12th birthdays. Twelve is a good ...
Well, Training Has Begun!!!
Hey there everyone, Well, I have made it to Venture Teams Training Camp, and so far, I have had an awesome experience. I am on a team of 10 people (5 guys & 5 girls). I arrived here at 2pm on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 after picking up a bunch of ...
Agent Orange Reporting for Duty
Ellen and I were sitting in a riverside restaurant one evening in Vientiane, Laos when a misshapen beggar crawled up to us. I'd just given him some money when the waiter came by and chased him away. Well not exactly chased. When I got a better look at ...
Paradise Found!
I found Paradise. I had the perfect location. I had the perfect setting sun. I had the perfect cloud cover. And I wasn't in the mood to take pictures. I took over three hundred pictures tonight. I still wasn't in the mood ...
"FU**IN' RIGHT!" (WE'RE GOING ACROSS CANADA)
... sat up front with stringy-bodied Curtis, and we talked on toward Bridgetown. Curtis enlightened us on politics. He said eastern Canada's early French settlers, the Acadians, had long ago been forced off their land by the British. They'd all been ...
A little pre-trip panic...
With a lot of changes coming up in our lives, we've decided to take a pre-wedding vacation to help the transition between end of work, wedding, move and start of new work. Basically, we have a ton of stuff planned for the next month. We both ...
Tomorrow....
We're leaving tomorrow...well, Thursday morning at 2 a.m. to be precise. It seems very little has changed from our state of planning since the last time I blogged - just more time has passed! The only thing that has changed is that we have a hotel ...
Wednesday 16 April
Wednesday We had breakfast in our room this morning and checked out of the Hotel. We left for North Vancouver, after the traffic had died down. We felt like competent Canadian drivers now that we had 2 days driving on what felt like the wrong ...
