Stone Gate Inn Orillia

... in a can just like the plane Mom and took last year to Copenhagen. I don't I will every fly again using an Airbus A330.

Italy was everything and more than I thought it would be. We saw some great sights, ate the best food and drank the best coffee in the world. We took over 1,200 pictures and now we have the job of sorting and editing.

Visit with fourteen relatives in one day. Can it be done? That's the question on my mind as we drove into Barrie, Ontario, around 6 pm on the July, 23rd.

We had a hard time finding our Holiday Inn Express Hotel because we were given some wrong directons by a variety store clerk, so the first hour we spent driving around lost. I luckily spotted the hotel from hwy 400 as we zoomed ...

... Provencial Park. We had a lovely picnic and then went for a canoe ride on Lake Marie Louise. The sun even came out for an hour or so. The clouds however moved in while we were on the water and the waves picked up rocking the canoe to the point Nels was sure we would capsize. There were two bald eagles flying overhead which distracted him from his panic and we enjoyed watching them immensely. And then there were a couple of loons on the lake to ...

On our way to Sail the Element Quest to her new home in Canada, We were half way around Cape Cod only had a few more hours of sailing then we would have been clear to sail east to long island NewYork, but with the radio calling for heavy storm warning, we disided to loose the last day of sailing and turn backwrds from were we came to get shelter, of coarse before we truned around we got to see 3 pods of northern right whales. seeing whales in your own boat 1) makes you feel ...

SilverBirch & The Wellington House offer Furnished Apartments offer guests continental breakfast, group rates and long term stay packages. High Speed Internet & Cable, at Hwy 400 in Downtown Core. Steps to food, shopping, entertainment, beaches, service outlets and more. 705.722.3657 or www.silverbirchsuites.com

... plenty of time - but we had to scramble into the long line without stopping for a bit to eat and we barely got a seat together. I'm surprised there is no reserved seating for such a long trip. The breakfast car did not open this morning, I guess everyone else had time to eat except us! We'll just have to work on our bag of snacks until lunch time.

After a long 7 and a half hour flight Leaving Canada landing in Gatwick London airport I found myself alone and waiting. Excited as I was and not knowing a thing about England my first experience of British culture was not that welcoming at all to say the least. Tired, Alone, and wondering when that boy would show. Curious of this new life I had coming for me, I stepped off the coach bus and had a drunken man yell in my face...................

... Myanmar 426 Van & Driver shared for 5 ...

... for her grandson, however, a good visit. With the rest of the afternoon at our leisure, Ken and Kim suggested a tour of Orillia and nearby Barrie where Ken worked. I managed to see all the things I should have in a rural Ontarian town, snow ploughs and the storage for the salt and sand for the icy roads, the orange sticks attached to fire hydrants to designate their whereabouts in times of thick snow, and of course, Harvey's, Loblaw's, Tim ...

... past five years, including bridges over the creek, 4 or 5 cabins and residences, a communal kitchen, underground root cellar for food storage, as well as aquiring a few other buildings and an old school bus. They had a solar oven which they used to cook in the summer, a windtower that ran all year round, several PV panels to run their lights and laptops and a number of woodstoves for heat and winter cooking. With no running water, we were not surprised that the residents had either ...