Blogs from Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada, North America - page 6

October Thanksgiving weeks: Well, this was an eventful couple of weeks for sure. Here’s a rundown with details to follow if you want to read more as I sense this might be a long entry. We took two weeks away from Yellowknife. Dakotah and I went hunting with my Dad near Salmon arm for a few days, then Dakotah and I did some visiting in Kamloops. She enjoyed spending that time with her friends and went to school for a day. I spent some time with friends and got engaged to Tim. Then we went back to hunting again, out to Lumby this time. While we were in Kamloops, Dad and Mike got a moose and we were successful in getting a deer out in Lumby area. We spent some time visiting cousins out that way ... read more

Me again - We left behind out timeshare base at Harvie Heights, Canmore and set off on the long journey to Vancouver - we didnt quite know where we were headed but had several plans - all dependiong on how tired we might get with the driving. Great weather again and quite abit warmer - we have been so lucky with the weather. As we left without brekki we stopped at cute little town of Field ( I was interested in this location as it is near to the Burgess Shale - famous for Fossils which changed the way we think about evolution - well God was working overtime if he put all then there!!) Lovely little houses there lots of B&Bs and a great cafe - which had aspecial on that day especially for Suzanne ... read more

Mike: We finally caved - checked into a (cheap) motel in Kamloops and enjoyed the first shower in 10 days. Needless to say, we needed it... Today we biked 125km - the farthest in a day so far! The road was quite wild, perhaps adding to our motivation of getting to Kamloops. The morning was great - a quick nearly all downhill jaunt down to Little Fort from Clearwater - but the uphills soon appeared, and the shoulder almost disappeared. We biked for 7.5hours... which started to wear on the nerves due to all of the logging / industry trucks passing us - loud, stinky, and close enough to touch. That's not even mentioning the hundreds of oversize load trucks on the two-lane mountain road... The landscape has changed drastically since we first arrived in BC ... read more

Two more days of packing and cleaning and we are starting our drive North. My trip to Calgary yesterday went off without a hitch. Fly in Fly out.. and a day is gone. Today we pack the truck (which is hopefully all of the fixed now) I had a few surprises this last week with the truck that I was soooo glad for, since it happened BEFORE we were on the road. Tomorrow we clean and ready the house for our friends to come live in, Dakotah comes back from Camp. Big Thank You's to my Uncle Barry and Aunt Bernadette for bringing her home and saving me an extra 8 hours of driving. It will take us three days to get to Yellowknife, a total of 25 hours of driving. First stop will be Grand ... read more

Hello Everyone, Just setting up my blog and im trying to invite evryone i know to be able to view it! The next week ill be busy trying to get as much things done as i can before i leave. Im starting to feel excited and a little frantic too. ... read more