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... most common ones were turtles and fish. We got our hiking boots on and set off on a walk at Cabin Lake, through blueberry fields and then beside yet another beaver dam through waist high grass. It had been threatening rain all day and we had our rain jackets on, but half way through the hike it absolutely pelted down and we'd been getting eaten alive by mosquitoes - the worst place for them on our trip so far, so we decided to bail out.



Continuing the scenic loop ...

Happy Saturday everyone!

Just wanted to drop a line and make sure this blog thingy works before we head out! We have 3 days to finish packing and organizing our paperwork, and then we board our plane for Fiji via LAX.

We have an 8 hour stop-over in LA so I'm hoping to check it out...might be fun to see the beaches and/or shopping areas! After that we have an 11 ...

Its three days before we depart for Africa. Time seem to have come to a stand still now as we force to crawl to the starting line................finishing line otherwise. After Valentine celebrations with Pheli to commerate our eleventh anniversary, which also happens to fall on Valentine. Two parties later, here we are finalizing our packing for the trip..............reality of space confinements, weight problems with ...

... for taxi fare to get to the cargo area of the airport to get my motorcycle. I do have a room booked for the first 2 nights in Frankfurt but no money for food. All my credit cards are maxed out. My bank accounts are maxed out to their overdraft limits. I basically borrowed the money from Katrine to be able to get home from the West Coast Tour. So I have all this faith in the Universe, in God, in What? Is! , to provide when the time is right. Well, the ...

... but I did get a couple of photos. I also took photos of the pair of rabbits that have been working their way through the flowerbed out the front of our house. Unfortunately they are causing considerable damage and they don't seem to be deterred by the two doggies here who would like to eat them. My cousin wants to remove them by trapping and relocating them, but I can't help thinking they're just too cute!

... really understand are those who have had their own "experience". I'm hoping you can all access this sermon with the technology that you possess and do spend the 40 minutes or so listening. Listen to it over and over, like I have, if you have to. I dozed off partially through it once. I'm that exhausted. After that I went to Louise's as she had invited me for lunch. She was gone to bring a friend to the airport and Alexis was still sleeping after babysitting ...

... would be their summer, so maybe Patagonia wouldn't be completely frigid. Perhaps I can finally achieve Spanish fluency if I hang out there for a while. There are just too many choices - how can a guy decide? I've filled roughly 7 pages in my passport with stamps, and have about 12 more to go! I guess it's unimportant how I go about that. Anyway ... enough about travel. Breakfast was pretty blah - OJ, a cheese/tomato/lettuce croissant ...

... where the 1988 Winter Olympic Games were held. It was really cool and if we had some more time and money I would have loved to go down the Bobsled track. Then we did some shopping and later that night on to see the Calgary Flames play the New Jersey Devils. The Flames did a lot better than the Oilers did and it was a double shut-out at the end of regulation. However 35 secs into OT the devils scored on a breakaway to win 1-0.

... So after we spent a fortune on the tickets we felt a little better and wen home...slept in our traveling clothes (as everything was packed up) and Ca had a talk with Poseidon and asked him to calm down just for one day...... Sept 24: We woke up really really early and took our ATV down to the Promenade where we began our day waiting outside the travel agency to see if the ferries were coming....at first we only thought there was bad news ...

... All of that aside, this was the best hike we did for the week. Once at the top we got to see another amazing blue lake with surrounding mountains and just a little bit of snow left at the top! These views and lakes make the climbs well worth the effort! Another undies glacier lake swim for marty at the top. After all the hikes we had been doing we decided to hit the water on Sunday - but not for a leisurely paddle, instead Marty thought white water rafting was the ...