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Banff Gondola and Sulphur Mountain Summit

It’s hard to pick a favourite part of our quick trip to Calgary – seeing the pandas at the Calgary Zoo (though gorillas and hippos will always be my favourites), driving past so many of our old haunts (even tried to buzz a neighbour whose name is still on the board at our former condo […]

¶ Posted 20 August 2019 § Canada § Family § Jobs § MemoryLane § Pace § Sasha § Shea § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: alberta, cool, economics, education, history, holiday, science

Music Monday – “Now Campbeltown Loch is a beautiful place/But the price of the whiskey is grim/How nice it would be if the whiskey was free/And the Loch was filled up to the brim”

One of the best things about traveling is the people you meet. I met a young guy from Scotland at the Banff Hot Spring and during our conversation, mentioned my grandmother was born in Campbeltown, Scotland. He asked if I knew this old folk song and I admitted that I didn’t (though I quickly filed […]

¶ Posted 19 August 2019 § Family § MusicMonday § PopCulture § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: holiday

Saturday Snap – Pandamonium!

¶ Posted 17 August 2019 § Family § Pace § Photo § Sasha § SaturdaySnap § Shea ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education, holiday

Pandas Adjusting Wonderfully to Calgary Zoo

We didn’t have many plans for our week off in August (ten days counting weekends on either end) but a chance conversation with a library patron has us heading to Calgary for a few days. We’d been talking about visiting the Calgary Zoo to see the pandas since they were announced as coming. But we […]

¶ Posted 14 August 2019 § Canada § Family § Library § MemoryLane § Travel § Work ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: alberta, cute, education

Five Things I Love The Most About Our rPod 182G

Hard to believe we’ve had our 2012 rPod for five years now having bought it used during summer 2014. Through the first couple years of pulling it around the province, one year in a provincial seasonal site and the last couple in a regional park, I continue to feel like we made an awesome decision […]

¶ Posted 06 August 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan § Travel § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: camping, cute, economics, holiday, saskatchewan

Camping Wrap-Up

It’s weird how time can sometimes seem so slow (when you’re lazing through most days with some tunes, a good book and tasty beers) and at the same time, so fast (when you have a two week holiday that feels like it only lasted two days.) We had a great two weeks camping with lots […]

¶ Posted 04 August 2019 § Family § MemoryLane § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: camping, holiday, saskatchewan

Music Monday – “Well, Canada’s been good to us/We’ve a living and a home/We’ve all got central heating air/And most are on the phone/I’m a citizen of both countries/And very proud to be/For the thistle and the maple leaf/Are the emblems of the free”

Happy Canada Day! I recently re-discovered this photo of myself and four other four Canadians on exchange to the University College of Ripon & York St. John (say that three times fast!) in 1995. I can’t remember the impetus for our fashion choice – maybe at a dance or for the new student orientation? – […]

¶ Posted 01 July 2019 § Canada § MemoryLane § PopCulture § Saskatchewan § ThrowbackThursday § UK ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: education

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Honu in Kauai (January 2012)

We were invited to a 50th Anniversary of my Hawaiian aunt and uncle (I know, right?) but unfortunately, Hawaiians don’t think of things like “winter” so they scheduled the anniversary for June 2019 instead of January 2019. So that’s one of the main reasons we won’t be attending though we’ll be there in spirit. That […]