Canada Travel Blogs - Page 5

Being home is the strangest thing. My parents are away on a cruise right now and my older brother was on a fishing trip so I got a ride home from Janelle. Driving down the streets of Vancouver, the first thing I noticed was the incredible amount of street lights that lined the roads. It was just la…

Went houseboating on Shuswap Lake in Canada. In terms of the weather it was one of the most diverse houseboating trips anyone could have hoped for. August 30 - September 5 2009.

I had every intention when Toby dog woke me up this morning to get out of bed and drive to Sydney to take pictures of the sunrise...but I changed my mind.I got up let the dogs out for their morning rounds and proceeded to make my coffee.I am sitting at my computer and Tuggs and Toby come up to me a…

    Hey folks a little story on how we celebrated Easter when I was a kid, how I celebrate it now...and a wee bit of some history that I could fInd.So the story goes Easter was a Pagan celebration called Eastre...celebrating the coming of spring, new life.It was also celebrated by th…

We had the most perfect weekend, a beautiful way to share the world together. We flew up to Banff on the Friday night and stayed in the beautiful Fairmont Springs, the fairy tale castle of the Canadian Rockies. On Saturday we went on a few wildlife trips around the Montane forests of Banff. We …

  Originally I was supposed to go to Butchart Gradens with my friends Mike and Lesley..they decidied they wanted to go to Fort Rod Hill instead. (I may never get to Butchart Gardens)...... So I grabbed my camera and away we went.  I had already seen the tall Ships most of the Friday and S…

  It was the July long weekend......I had been waiting for these darn things to come in all year long.  I thought the day was never going to get here.The Tall Ships...hooray!!!They began coming in Friday morning around 10:00am...of course I was at work so I could not get out to the ocean …

The drive from Vancouver to Squamish is quite a rush, especially in the early morning.  I had made a CD mix for Katherine of electronic music, and had actually designed it to be listened to while driving in the morning.  Today seemed as appropriate as any day, with the mist covering up mo…

OK, I'm getting too excited ... starting a Tucson Blog and I haven't even step foot on my flight ... OH OH .... what is up!!!!!!!!!!! 5:45am; Dan is trying his best to get me up ... after all, today I’m flying to Tucson for my 4th TB Meet-Up and to see the surrounding areas in Arizona!  &…

A cross-country trip in the single engine airplane. An excuse for my husband to fly, and for me to visit some friends back east.

As I had missed the concert last night, I got in quite a bit of rest. 4 hours from 9pm to 1am, and then 5 more from 3:30am to 8:30am. Since we had to leave at 11am to catch the noon ferry I thought I'd see a teeny bit more of Victoria before we had to go. I got up, showered and ran around town for …

    It was around 900am, my friend met me at Serious coffee, before taking a wee bit of a hike on Sunday morning.  The day started out sunny, then got cool, a wee bit of rain, then warm again....I think the island has a very strange weather system this year (hahaha) Because I on…

I'm knee deep in packing mod at the moment.  It's really not fun.  I'm trying to pack my life into two checked luggage pieces and one carry-on.  But the clock is ticking and whether I'm ready or not, I'm getting on that plane to Sydney.  Those who know me well don't really find …

Canada! My first memory of Canada stretches way back to 1985. I was in New Jersey playing with my cousins in a suburb near Newark. Given my fondness for planes, I used to curiously watch various airlines fly over their house to Liberty International - PanAm, TWA, etc. And I vividly recall seeing Ai…

Vernon. My hometown. The place I’ve lived by WHOLE life. It’s a beautiful, small city in the Okanagan Valley, which is situated in BC’s interior. The population is about 37,000 people. It’s the North Okanagan’s largest city and is located on three lakes, Okanagan, Kalamalka, and Swan, and…