Blogs from Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, North America - page 2

A LATE arrival in Morden Saturday, 21 July 2007 This morning we loaded our gear & ourselves into Casper & headed to Cypress River, from where I was planning to cycle maybe 20 kilometres along the Trans Canada Trail before returning to pavement & the road heading towards Altamont. We were planning to stay in Morden, but that was about as far as I thought I could go for the one day. Bob, meanwhile, realized just before he dropped me off that he’d been expecting a parcel of mail from Ottawa, which had been sent quite a bit earlier in the week, and he’d neither heard anything about it, nor had he remembered to ask if it had arrived at the desk. So he & Panna were going to drive back to Brandon to inquire ... read more

From Shilo to Holland Thursday, 19 July 2007 Today we drove back to waypoint 002, near CFB Shilo, according to my GPS, and I took Silver for a ride to Holland. We were about 15 kilometres north of the Spirit Sands area of Spruce Woods Provincial Park, so Bob & Panna were going to go there, check it out & maybe wait for me, as I figured I’d be there in about an hour or so. It looked like it was going to be another scorcher! When I got there I could see that Casper was still there, but no sign of my traveling companions. I was just about ready to head out on the trail, as bicycles are not allowed on those trails, when they returned, both hot & sweaty. They’d gone along one of ... read more

From Neepawa to Brandon (or, I REALLY don’t like highway 10!) Tuesday, 17 July 2007 It was moving day again for us & according to my GPS Brandon was only about 55 kilometres away, so I decided to take Blue & cycle to our motel there. The only problem was that my GPS doesn’t recognize many of the roads around here, even fairly significant ones, so that measurement was “as the crow flies”, not as the roads run. (But of course at the time I hadn’t come to that conclusion...) So off I went, on highway 16, which runs in front of the motel, heading west to highway 10. By doing so, one adds considerably to the distance travelled - it’s like a right triangle. So by the time I’d reached highway 10, with 40 kilometres ... read more

First blog North America » Canada » Manitoba » Brandon By Scott KerryApril 7th 2007Hello everyone, This is our very first blog on this site. We tried using a myspace page but it didn't really fit our needs. We aren't interested in sharing all our favorite songs, books, movies and so on. We just wanted an easy to use page to share our travel experiences with our friends and family. I think this place will fit much better. I will take some time and upload some pictures and write some blogs from our recent trip to New York and also my trip to Whitehorse. Stay tuned, Scott... read more