Travel Blogs from Regina, Canada
3 provinces, 2 time zones
Oh boy are we tired. It was an amazing travel day, sunshine, rain, snow. It's amazing how much distance you can cover on the prairies when the road is straight rather then the twists and turns of Ontario. Ontario is ruggedly beautiful, ...
Booked and now the prep begins
Booking details are finalized and deposits are paid. We are now confirmed with great rooms and awesome time to be together as a family in the Caribbean in the middle of winter 2010. From Ft Lauderdale to Honduras, to Grand Cayman, to Cozumel and ...
Back Home!
Well I have been back home for almost a week. I'm still trying to process all of the many things that I learned while I was gone. I'm currently sitting up waiting to go pick my roommate up from the airport and thought that I would try to ...
Day 1
... call to the best mechanic around...Tim the Temple of Torque expert was made. Thanks Tim! He fit me in first thing Tuesday morning, and we were on the road by 10h30 am. First stop...REGINA. Wow. 800kms in one day. A sense of things to come...I think. ...
Exploration Time!!!!
... gallery. Ro cooked his awesome Corsican Stew for dinner - and we actually located some polenta at an Italian grocery store in Regina! lumsden is located in the Qu'Appelle Valley (yes... there are valleys with resulting hills in parts of SK!). Beautiful ...
Back home
Well, sad but true . . . home back in COLD Saskatchewan. 5 seconds is all it took coming out of the airport to realize how much I missed the warm, mild, humid Caribbean weather. I'm not so sure I like this cold and snow stuff much anymore like when ...
Saskatchewaaaaaan, Saskatoon & Regina, SK
... , et j'ai encore mon chapeau! Demain, le parc Riding Mountain au Manitoba! ***************************************** Saskatchewan, Saskatoon & Regina Saskatchewaaaaaaan....tu m’as pris ma femme….. you may not know the song from les ...
One night in Regina (and the world's your oyster)
... is Calgary. However, from The Peg this involves a 24 hour bus journey...no thanks. About halfway through is the city of Regina in Saskatchewan...seems like a convenient place to stop. Plus it's a new province and a new time zone...how exciting! The bus ...
...and the party goes on!
... , who live in Regina, to visit with. Definitely was a family weekend, the cultural thing to be continued later! We arrived in Regina just after 5pm. Everyone was there for a BBQ feast! Leon, his wife Chris and their three girls, Sherry with her husband ...
11 weeks to go...
February 10 - We have thought about, bought new and tried on old clothes to take for a few weeks now. Still not sure what is the best pants, shirts, blouses, shoes, jackets etc etc etc to take. The excursions are out for us to choose. For ...
No Really. I don't mind a five hour delay.
As the title suggests, we got off to a bit of a slow start. Plane is supposed to leave around noon, we need to be there 2 hours early, so I get up in good time, but not ridiculous early; I'm on holidays people. As I head in to shower, I am informed ...
Fundraiser!!
...Tumbler's was amazing. Jim and Reed Baiton gave us their establishment and put together a fabulous buffet (pizza, ribs, lasagna, salad). Kim and Street Culture, Megan planned, organized, decorated, set up, silent auction, 50/50, draws, ...
Best Western Bliss
It's been a long day, but short day I the car. Totally pooped. We are the first guests in a great hotel. Off to bed early, hopefully on the road early. See you on the trail ...
Where is my command start?
Having breakfast and with windchill -44c we are dreading packing the ...
Reflections
Hello everyone. I thought I'd give a little update as well as reflect on the past few days and the trip in general. It is early Thursday morning and have still not recovered from jet-lag. I'm trying to get back on schedule but will take ...
Back Home
Nearly 24 hours of flying and 4 different cities and we're finally back at home. Tired, not feeling well but still vertical! Another great trip to the Far East in the bag. It is always with mixed emotions that I return home. As cliched ...
Grüne Oase in der Prärie
... mit einem Dieselfahrzeug abseits des Highways wirklich zum Problem werden, gerade weil die Tankstellen nicht unbedingt 24h geöffnet haben. Regina war entgegen aller Erwartungen (nämlich keine) eine sehr nette Stadt inmitten des ganzen Nichts, durch das ...
Rhymes with...
... which I like the best, got to wander through and read little stories and chill. I was now hungry so when downtown Regina and wandered around looking for a restaurant I saw in the tourism guide, Beer Bros Bakery. Saw City Hall and the ...
Home to Saskatchewan for Christmas
I have to update my blog between Durham, NC and my return to Canada but it will have to wait as Christmas is here. I got back to Saskatchewan/family and farm on the 15th of December so lots of family and community get ...
C.C.S.V.I. HOME
... taking for the problems I experienced earlier are doing their thing. It turned out that the dental problems diagnosed and treated here in Regina were completely wrong and thanks to Dr. Karla in Cabo(hospital were I had the procedure) we now have a control ...
Day 5
... Ranger het üs sogar dr zue ufgforderet d Schlange ads länge und uf ds lüpfe. Nachdäm Usflug hei mir üs ufe Wäg richtig Regina gmacht. Mir si am GPS gfolgt wo üs zure Strass gfüehrt het wo ä See überschwemmt het, oder besser gseit nid ganz, ...
4 Weeks
... will print my letter to the editor this week. Many of us are doing various things to help make this procedure available in Canada. Its really sad when politics trumps health and people who don't know anything about this are stopping it from happening. I ...
Memories - Re-visiting & Making New Ones
... tons of fluffly stuff in the yard from the cottonwood tress - looks like snow. We're off to Lumsden tomorrow (30km northwest of Regina) - can't remember why - guess I was more tired than I thought! All I remember is that it's minimal time in the car ...
A Turbulent Return
... even with enough time to board our next flight. Intelligence at its finest. I rejoiced (inside my head) when we landed in Regina, having recognized the signs of not enough sleep and turbulence in every flight, had the breath knocked out of me when Mom ...
6 month Follow up
We were in Toronto last week where we had great visits with various friends. On Wednesday we went to Barrie to Dr. Sandy MacDonald's clinic for my 6 month follow up. They did Doppler ultrasound on various veins and the results are that all my veins are ...

