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Travel Blogs from Edmonton, Canada
One week!
At this time next week I will be somewhere over the Pacific Ocean on my way to the other side of the world. I am now in mass organization mode, as you can imagine, under commander-in-chief Super Mom. I was getting quite nervous about my ability to get ...
Fort Edmonton Historic Park
... day. We did laundry this morning, and Jim got a much needed haircut. We then headed to Fort Edmonton Park. This is the largest of Canada's living history parks. It depicts Canada in four historical eras: the fur trade of the mid ...
We saved the best of Edmonton for last
Most important today – Happy 67th anniversary to Jim's parents Betty and Jack. We had decided to spend an extra day in Edmonton. This allowed us a down day, plus some extra sites that were on our list. We will spend the next four days on the ...
T-3 to blast off
Hi Everyone, Welcome to our travel blog. Well its -17C here (-24 with the wind chill), but its +18C in Sydney, so yeah, we are VERY excited to get on the plane and get going. We'll be sad to leave Megs behind but at least Mo's parents dog (Zudnick) ...
Day One at the Fantasyland Hotel
... the hotel. The flight was smooth from Orlando to Minneapolis/St. Paul but very long (3.5 hours). Then the connecting flight to Edmonton was about 2.25 hours. Not quite as bad. I slept on that flight. The best part was that everything went ...
Phew....
... there was SO nice :o) She figured out that O'Hare & the telephone people didn't realize that I am going to be in Edmonton overnight.. Suitcases aren't allowed to be checked in overnight apparently! So she said I could drop the suitcase off at the storage ...
Welcome to Our Adventure
... ; A trip and experience like this is priceless. Our adventure starts this Friday at 8 am when we fly from Edmonton to Nairobi via Minneapolis and Amsterdam, arriving in Nairobi at about 7 pm on Saturday (Kenya and Tanzania are 10 hours ...
home....nooooooooooooooooooooo
Welcome back to Canada for me! rain and cold. VIck is still in Greece, visiting the fam. I didn't get much chance to write the last days in greece, probably because the brain cells were compromised. Our last day we went offroading outback style with our ...
Last days in Africa
... . They put me on a flight about 7 hours later, and I ate like a king on their tab too. FINALLY got back to Edmonton just after midnight, Wednesday morning. The customs people made me unpack everything, and I was the last person from the flight out of ...
4 year fall reflection
So its been roughly 4 years since the trip that changed my life forever and as the weather turns and fall approaches and the urge to travel creeps back I've decided to Reflect For just a moment. I think This travelblog is a ongoing process As i still ...
Year in Review
Well I'm back in Canada now and what a year it has been! When I first agreed to take this job it was kind of intimidating...living on my own for the first time, my first job out of University, moving to an entirely foreign country, etc etc. When I agreed ...
Môman, c'est finiii/ Dadada's it folks
Finallement de retour à la maison après presque 2 mois d'absence. Quel périple. Je suis assis à mon ordinateur et il diffuse mes photos de voyage en boucle et chacune me ramène au moment précis où je l'ai prise. Je vais passer des moments ...
T-3 and counting
... travel blog which we will try to update frequently with lots of pictures and few words to keep the boredom to a minimum. Its -17C (-24C with the windchill) here in Edmonton, but its +18C in Sydney so we are quite excited to get going. K and ...
And we're off!
So I have roughly one hour before I have to be out of the house and on the way to the airport. I'm pretty stoked right now. Except I think I caught a cold at work over the last week, and my nose is all stuffed up. My bet is on the plane ...
Why am I here?
... it, just won't give access to the guests. That's crap! Calgary, Banff, Lake Louise have free wireless but not Edmonton - go figure. Okay, I'm bitching but it's really annoying. Even the cafes charge to access their wi-fi. Am ...
Gastfreundschaft in Edmonton
... und einem noch verrückteren Hotelbesitzer ging es also am nächsten Tag los auf die 4stündige Fahrt richtung Norden: Edmonton - entfernte Verwandte von mir besuchen. Godo Shantu und Calan, die Familie des Sohnes der Cousine meiner Oma (irgendwer ...
Epilogue
So here I am, back home again in Edmonton, Alberta. The weather is lovely and I have been enjoyed being in the company my family and friends. After spending another Holiday week in Vancouver, I hoped a flight back to Edmonton just in time for my ...
Five Days to go and Counting!
... eat at Boston Pizza, if you must pray, go to On The Rocks and pray to the procelain gods, and if you must love, love the place you are in right now... Edmonton! -confused-ious PS. I totally realize how self-indulgent travel blogs are but hey, you know me! ...
6 days to go!
... to feel like we are ready to go. We even picked up some items for the children in the villages in Fiji and we got some of those Canada flag pins to give away on our travels. The best part about them is that they were free. Tip: If you want to have pins to ...
Edmonton
Now our awesome little car takes us to Edmonton...after a very stressfull 4 hour drive we arrive at our campsite with no ...
Edmonton
... just didn't do him justice. Saturday was an early start as we had to pick up the show tickets and drive across town to the West Edmonton Mall. Well what can I say about the Mall - It is like a city in its own right. Not too sure what I would put up ...
Eindruecke "The Canadian"
... behagliche "Rattern" des Zuges und ich liess es mir ebenso im Panorama-Aussichtswagen oder im Speisewagen gut gehen. In Edmonton wurde ich dann auch schon herzlich von meiner Cousine Anita empfangen. Bei ihr hause ich nun ein paar Tage ...
It's finally here!
Okay I need to get one entry in here before Lindz has 20!I don't know why but my main concern is that I have food with me once off the plane so I don't starve...Ya think I'd have something else on my mind!! Anyways, I'm getting really really excited ...
Preparations
I know I said my next entry would be from Delhi, but I'm bored, the computer's here, so why not. I got my passport with the all-important visa in it, the system worked exactly as advertised. I've been getting my preps done, but, having ...
Back to Mile 0 and homeward
... Shell in Davidson. They were just heading north to Alaska so we wished them a safe and warm ride. Wildlife - 1 deer. 34 degrees when we pulled into Edmonton. We are meeting our friend Alfreda for a visit this ...
West Edmonton Mall
... ging es in umgekehrter Richtung weiter. Zuerst in den Wall Mart (Morgentoillette :-D ) und danach zurück in die West Edmonton Mall. Nochmals ein bisschen Sightseeing und Sushi fürs Mittagessen einkaufen. Und kurz darauf hatten wir Edmonton schon im ...
We leave today!!!
We are just getting ready to leave for our flight to sunny Sydney. We will stop briefly in Vancouver and Honolulu before arriving in Sydney early Monday morning (Sunday afternoon in Canada). Cheers! We'll write ...