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By Chocolatemonkee
November 6th 2008

Muscles, Planes and Snow

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Patience is a virtue! Muscle pain gone! Pinched nerves gone! South East Asia will have to put up with me after all. Thanks to an over zealous massage therapist and some good ole stretching I think my pulled hamstrings are back to almost normal. For awhile, we were worried that this injury, that lasted two months, would never heal. We were both surprised when I woke up one morning to find most of the pain had disappeared. I owe a lot of it to Naproxin and Extra strength liquid gel Advils. With the focus back on the trip, Candace and I [View Full Entry]

By Chocolatemonkee
October 22nd 2008

Travel in Jeopardy???

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The worst thing that could happen has happened. Our trip back to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos could be in jeopardy. About a month and 1/2 ago, I injured myself while working out. It seemed minor at the time and I continued to work out. Well the injury got worse and I am now almost unable to walk most days. I started out by going to the chiropractor as I thought I put my back out. After several visits, I found that this was doing nothing. I then started massage therapy. This offered partial relief but the pain came back the next [View Full Entry]

By Crannster
September 1st 2008

A Quick Tootle Back Through the Country

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smoldering remains
of a forest fire just 100 km south of Yellowknife, NWT

Hello! We rocketed out of Yellowknife. We drove 3500 km back to Sioux Lookout, Ontario in 5 days! Whew! Huge waterfalls and herds of bison lined the road as we headed out of the Northwest Territories. A seemingly endless expanse of forest sprawled for the first five hundred miles of Northern Alberta before thinning and flattening out into prairie. The mighty sky of the prairies and millions of heads of wheat welcomed us into Saskatchewan and Manitoba. We spent a night in Regina, SK with Karen (thanks Karen, you're the best!) then a couple of nights in Winnipeg with Moe (thanks [View Full Entry]

By Chocolatemonkee
August 28th 2008

Scuba Diving - Part Deux

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Mask Squeeze
Never tell your dive instructor he looks fat in his wetsuit!

Another step closer to our return trip to South East Asia was completed with a round of handshakes after completing my open water diving course. The water wasn't all that cold but then I was too excited to notice. Four of us descended and when we came back up after 4 dives, we were PADI certified Open Water Divers. I would love to say everything was awesome but there was a little mishap which ended up with me not equalizing my mask. In some circles, this is important. Ummmmm.... diving being one of those circles. I didn't [View Full Entry]

By Ezzie
August 23rd 2008

Not Exactly Spring…

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I’m halfway across Canada now, sitting in a campground in Vermilion Bay, Ontario. Up until I crossed the border into Manitoba, kitty and I have had great luck with weather and the roads. A friend told me about the hordes of mosquitoes in this part of the world, but the storms here were a bit of a surprise. Of course hearing today from the owner of the campground in Vermilion Bay that it was the worst storm in years and I was in the middle of it did make me feel a bit less of a wuss. Last night I was [View Full Entry]

By clairebw
August 20th 2008

Bears and bubbles

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bears

Well turns out the small city of Winnipeg has more than we thought to offer.... So far we've discovered there are over 60 painted concrete cast polar bears, painted in different styles by comunity groups to be spotted. All in the aid of cancer research and lots of fun people (some weirder than others) in our hostel. Also we went to a costume museum that has a library of Vogue magazines dating back to the 1920's and a dress up box, which of course we took photos of. We also had an awesome night out last out with the some skaters [View Full Entry]

By clairebw
August 18th 2008

1390 miles later

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Waiting for the train

Turns out Candian trains are interesting lol!! We have just spent 36 hours on a train form Toronto, Ontario to Winnipeg, Manitoba. which according to google maps and driving would be around 1390 miles, but we took a more diverted route than that. There are three Via rail trains that go across Canada a week a journey that on a good day would take around three days. At the moment though for some reason the Canadian National freight trains (of which there seems to be about one every 3 hours) is using the same track as the passenger trains, who [View Full Entry]

By Chocolatemonkee
July 31st 2008

2008 Tuk Tuk Tour .... In Canada?

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My son Quincy called me at work the other day. He had caught the tail end of the story on the news that there was a man driving across Canada in a Tuk Tuk! Q couldn't give me any more info and although I thought it would be cool to show the kids what a real Tuk Tuk looks like, I dismissed the idea as it was highly unlikely we would be able to find the guy! The next day I read a brief article in the paper that the Tuk Tuk had come through Winnipeg. Missed a little bit of [View Full Entry]

By Chocolatemonkee
July 25th 2008

Scuba Diving

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Summer seems to be almost done although there is still a month left. The weather in Manitoba has been less than ideal for hitting the beach and our brand new pool has not seen that much use. Both Payton and Quincy are off for Summer vacation and they both seemed okay with not doing a large vacation out west to Alberta or British Columbia this year. Instead we have tried to keep them busy with various activities including trips to Birds Hill Park, Winnipeg Beach and different things around town. Candace and the kids are planning to head to South Dakota [View Full Entry]

By ambersadventure
July 16th 2008

My Final Blog

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So this is it: my last travel blog! Nearly six months later and here I am, sitting at my parents' house in Winnipeg, with nothing more than a few souvenirs, a LOT of photos, and fantastic memories. It's a bit hard to reconcile starting "real life" again after such a phenomenal experience, but I suppose in time I'll be readjusted. Our flight back was fine, although we were stuck at the very back of the plane because I think we were likely the last people to check in (by a considerable margin, too!) The plane also held the world's loudest baby, [View Full Entry]

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