Canadian Inn Brandon

Day two concludes in sunny (and hot) Brandon, Manitoba. Who would have thought that in two days of travelling that the warmest place that we would run into would be Winterpeg? The sun was so hot and bright today that Jenn is suffering slightly with a sun burnt left arm earned by 6 hours in the driver's seat. Although a Long Island Iced Tea and a...

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After an extremely large binge purchase at the farmer’s market this morning we decided to leave Kenora and Ontario. The farmer’s market was outstanding. We picked up elk burgers and cumin gouda for dinner, bison salami and cheese and onion bread for lunch, smoked catfish and gold eye for whenever I damn feel like i...

Well, I have finally made it home, and decided that it may be time to update this blog.

The first day of travelling is always interesting. It started off as they usually do, a mix of excitement and nervousness. It hadn't quite sunk in that I was heading to Sweden for two weeks, two weeks that would surely be amazing. After the drama ...

We arrived at Thomas and Anita's on the same day as Anita received her Residency for Australia!!! Awesome news for us, they are hoping to move back to Australia!! Kara was able to answer a few questions Anita had about Life Down Under.

At this point Lindsay started to lose his voice, finally some peace and quiet!!

We started our journey on Wednesday June 18th - only 2 days later than we anticipated. Not too bad, especially considering that we did a full purge of our house to get it ready for renting. It's amazing how much "stuff" we were able to accumulate in 7 years. So this is our first attempt at a blog entry. Our goal is to not list every touristy thi...

It didn't rain in Saskatoon until we were about to get up. Then it started to pour. So we packed up our wet tent and tarps and kept going. We drove the Yellowhead Highway into Manitoba, then cut down to Brandon. We are staying the night with my cousin and hope to make a good dent in Ontario tomorrow.

Today we made it to lovely Verdin, Manitoba. That's not sarcastic, actually it seems like a nice town. Again, the day went pretty well. Our first stop was a quick one in Moose Jaw, just long enough to feed Connell, stop at Tim's and get a picture of Brenna with the giant Moose. Then it was on to Roleau (aka Dog River). Took a few pictures, had l...

Ok I've got to admit it now the prairies can be bloody boring. Today was a particularly enduring and tiring day (the constant rain didn't help either and it's still raining!!!) of very uninteresting and very flat landscape, broken by the occasional marsh or dam. The only wildlife that was around too was a coyote that looked very out of place a b...

Leaving Qu'Appelle we went north to see the Qu'Appelle valley, which just drops down from the Prairie, but the road doesn't follow it for very long. So we headed back to the Trans-Canada and into Friendly Manitoba. We were looking for perogies but didn't find any today. We've been assured that every town between here and Ontario will have them, ...

For a week, we stayed on Ian's Howpark Farm. Ian's Scottish great-grandfather had started the farm 124 years ago. It sat unimposingly, looked after by the only orange hills that popped up for miles on these Prairie fields as flat as a laser beam. We worked the days away. Dirty-blond, nice guy, honest-as-an-apple Ian had us Canada-trekkers pick p...