From the Prairies to the Orchards
I left Calgary on the morning of June 12th and am now in Kelowna for 4 days visiting a sister and her hubby, my parents, and a friend from high school. My first stop was Cochrane, which not that many years ago looked like the cattle ranching and petroleum...
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Alaska Highway traffic
Just a short note from back on the Alaska Highway this morning before I head back into the rocks, bound for Revelstoke. Many people researching their drive to the Yukon and Alaska hear about the lack of traffic on the road, but what exactly does that mean? Here’s the...
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A day in Calgary – shopping heaven
Today was a fun day in town. We dropped the girls off at school and went shopping 🙂 There are a whole lot of things that Whitehorse does very well, but although shopping is a world better than it was a decade ago, it’s still pretty dismal. On our...
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Prairies & dinosaurs – a drive to Drumheller
I couldn’t live on the Prairies, but I do enjoy visiting. Boring at first glance perhaps, but particularly if you get off on the back roads, there’s a grandness that is very powerful, and there are photo ops everywhere. We made a quick trip out to Drumheller and back...
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Icefields Parkway – incredible mountains
My plan yesterday was to reach my daughter’s in Airdrie (a few miles north of Calgary) by noon, so I was away from the Mount Robson Inn at 05:30. The last time I was on the Icefields Parkway was about 1970, so all I really knew about it was...
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In the Rockies – driving from Fort Nelson to Jasper
I’m in Jasper, about to get ready to leave for Calgary, via the Icefields Parkway. This is a bit of a detour but I haven’t been on the Parkway in over 30 years, so it’s time for a look-see. Yesterday was a long day and I arrived here exhausted...
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Heading down the Alaska Highway
I’m currently in a hotel at Mile 300 of the Alaska Highway (Fort Nelson, BC). I had hoped to reach Fort St. John but got slowed down by seeing about a million animals up close today – bears, moose, caribou, Rocky Mountain sheep, bison, even a bald eagle feeding...
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Off on a major road trip around BC and Alberta
The blog design is boring but not “buggy” now, and will remain that way for the next 3-4 weeks until I get back from a major road trip. I’m leaving early tomorrow for 3 weeks, with some of the destinations being: May 9: Calgary to see my daughter and...
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My apologies for the blog issues
If you came to the blog in the past 24 hours or so, I’m sorry about the Gawd-awful mess you found, especially if it froze your browser as it did Cathy’s and mine. I don’t know what it was, but I’ve totally rebuilt the blog with new files and...
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Monty the Spring dog
Monty loves Spring as much as I do. He’s been digging a bed into the soft, aromatic dirt in what will some day be one of the flower gardens, but one of the rapidly-growing snow-free places out in the forest is a good place for an afternoon nap, too....
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