Calgary Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Ok, woke up 6:00am Calgary time (8:00 London time) not too bad for a long time of no CPAP machine. French toast was on the menu and since I wasn't having to drive across country I had 2 cups of tea! Best tea I've had in a long long time!

Got to the Condo a bit late. Ryan was waiting for us with his girlfriend Dakota! What a cute couple th...

I'M SCREWED! I'm going to start this blog with a couple of stories. Story #1 - How did I get to deciding to take off for 2 months on a motorcycle expedition! Last spring I was chatting with Nick (my son who goes to the Royal Military College) when he mentioned that he might have 3 weeks off from training at the end of August and he was trying to...

Today didn't go to badly to start with even though I thought we were leaving at 8am so I was up and ready by about 7:30am only to then learn from Jeff the Giant that we were not actually leaving until 9am so I got on with doing some of the journal entries. When we got on the road we headed out of the city to a smaller community called Okotok wh...

We packed up our campsite and headed north through Kootenay National Park on Hwy 93. We stopped at a lookout where you can see an entire side of a series of mountains being burned to control Mountain Pine Beetle. There are huge areas of burned trees all along the highway as well, where natural fires in 2001 and 2003 burned over 12% of the park. ...

We departed Calgary on time with Air Transat after a bit of a hassle with the agent due to the fact that our flights were made through Orbitz.and had a fairly easy flight on an A333- no crying babies- nice!! The food was okay also considering what we have had though Air Canada!

Hey everyone, I figured it was about time I gave an update since my last entry. If you don't already know, I'm taking the year off school (hence the new travelogue). I thought long and hard about it and I made the decision right near the end of August. So, I went home, got my stuff together and drove my car back out here to Alberta (and yes, it ...

We are about 40 minutes away from leaving for the airport. YAHOO! Unfortunately I have a lot of gear, mostly because we are doing so many different things. See the pics. In any case, I think I'm as prepared as I will ever be - can't wait for this trip to start. Talk at you again when we are on the other side of the world...

Hi all, Well you've probably been getting lots of my group email things so I thought I'd let just those who want to read about my adventures read about them. Day two of uni (or school as they like to call it). The campus is nice - I'm not sure how accommodating it will feel in winter but thus far it is nice. Classes are fine. All in all it isn't...

Yesterday I was let loose in a big bookstore called Chapters (like Borders in Oz). It probably wasn't a good idea - I came out with 4 books about the Canadian Rockies and the Alberta region. It's kind of an investment, as I am keen to come back next year. In the afternoon, the whole family went back to the Stampede and explored the agricultural ...

Well, as most of you probably perdicted, we just may leave earlier than planned on our RTW trip. Yesterdy I skipped out of work early with John because it was such a beautiful day. We went and sat in the park and talked about what we really want right now. John has decided to not do another semester of school after this one (this one finishes in...