Coast Plaza Hotel &Amp Conference Centre Calgary

... Park on the Alberta border which was out of our way with Moosejaw, less of a detour. On the way, we had a pit stop at the nice town of Davidson, home to the biggest coffee pot, which was a big mural of aspects of life in rural Saskatchewan.


Moosejaw is a cool town full of architecture from the early 1900s. It is most famous for being “The Chicago of the North”, where Al Capone and his cronies used to smuggle whiskey and rum during prohibition in the ...

The day started with an excellent breakfast of fruit salad, bacon and poached eggs with toast. What a great way to start a day. They would like to recommend that bed and breakfast (cocktail hour included) to all of Barb and Ian's friends. Another feature of this B&B was the airport shuttle service. Many thanks to both Barb and Ian for their great hospitality.

We arrived at ...

... learn that he was really serious. So , I plead with him to put me on the next flight, which actually just started boarding. So, there I go, running up the stairs, and trying to move quickly through security, just in time to make my flight! So, there I am arriving in Calgary, and hour earlier than expected, and now have to figure out how to spend the next 4 hours before my flight was to leave for London, England. After what seemed ...

So Gill and I are all set for our trip down to Brazil and Argentina. First stop Rio de Janeiro. Our flight is at 7 am today and we are gonna make our way there at 5 am. It's about 1:30 am now and I am trying to figure out how to get the network cable connection to work on my HP Mini. It's mad irritating and I should really go to sleep. So I been looking forward to this trip for a while and really don't know what to expect ...

... they recommend certain motorcycles (ie. BMW R1200 GS's) that are better suited for driving the narrow, windy roads of Europe. I check into renting a motorcycle for 2 months and even buying one there. Those options won't work so I have to find this certain BMW model motorcycle in Calgary. Hey! Isn't that the model motorcycle I saw at the motorcycle store? Is that a coincidence, or what? I'm back in the motorcycle store a couple weeks later and talk to a ...

On the 3rd of  July we played in Heritage Park on the outskirts of Calgary, a small themed village which tries to imitate how the city looked in the past. It has many real western-frontier buildings and its authenticity is pretty good, but it is the kind of place where, for a price, you can see everything in about an hour and never need to go back. It was fun though, 

... up and presented our passports & the dogs shots records, answered a few questions, and we were off in no time at all. So far so good. The road today was hilly & all grasslands. The good news about Canada is that you cannot drive as fast - this is good because it helps with my gas mileage and diesel costs. One of the first things we noticed about Canada was how clean and organized it is. Great info signs showing you were everything is - not the gaudy billboards we have back in ...

... he's asking for, plus all the truck repair ones. There are special rules where they may exempt "emergency" repairs. Most of my purchases were CDs and DVDs, plus the Rock Shop purchases and the creams and lotions purchased in Vegas. The guy questioned the amount of the purchases in Vegas. I told him the girl was cute. He didn't find that amusing. The woman sitting next to him did. This guy was quite young and probably spends more money on beer in 6 months than I ...

... I'm not sure what I'm doing when this job is done, but that's kind of the fun of it. I might find an apartment here in Alberta somewhere and live and work until September, or I may go home for a couple months and then come back or something completely different, I really don't know! All I know is that I'm happy, I'm having fun and I'm looking forward to some great adventures! Until next time....

... The hike itself was an 5hr 8km return trip on the ice. Great hike! It was guided by a outdoor adventure specialist and the rules are pretty strict for hiking on it - otherwise you could end up going down the most exciting water slide but one that will result in you being frozen for the next 50 years or so. In fact the guide was telling us that they have found a wooly mammoth in one glacier that is also receding and they also know of an army car that is trapped under a ...