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By Cpheen
July 8th 2008

Goodbye NB, Canada

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This is just a trial first entry into my newly created travel blog! I have said all my goodbye's and I am all packed ready to go. I leave on an over night flight to London today and will arrive at my destination of Carcassonne (in southern france outside of Toulouse) late tomorrow afternoon. I am so excited to get this adventure going, just looking at my backpack makes me just want to jump up and go. As for a rough itinerary of trip, it is as follows: Swizterland ~ 1 week Germany (including munich and Berlin!!) ~ 1.5 weeks Czech [View Full Entry]

By Banks Duo
October 14th 2007

We've crossed the border

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The Road to Color
Just another colorful sight.

Hello from Canada, We said a fond farewell to Bar Harbor & Acadia, but made a spontaneous stop at a local birdhouse artist. We could have purchased any house we wanted on the honor system. But, Bob the artist and a native of the area, wanted to talk. He could tell a story about each and every birdhouse, where the materials had been salvaged from, and his mother's collections. He was a single parent and had to make a living on Mt. Desert Island and care for his son. He restores antique furniture and builds very unique birdhouses. Guess what we [View Full Entry]

By Towards the light
September 5th 2007

Sweet Dreams

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House
Nice house, but busy.

From Annie: Hi again , y'all! Thank you for your comments, Chris, Sarah, Linda and Verne (and Grammy).... Your comments are always appreciated. Well, in the meantime, we've grieved Timber and recovered. What helped us most was a dream that Greg had several days ago. He met Timber in a sunny field. Timber communicated with Greg telepathically. Timber told Greg that he was sorry for being aggressive toward him, but that things happened the way they had to. He was never going to give Greg control over him (or anyone else, for that matter). But he is happy where he is [View Full Entry]

By Towards the light
August 21st 2007

Timber come, Timber go

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Timber
He was beautiful, and when he was good, it was great to be around him.

From Annie: Hi, y'all. How are you, we missed you. Don't know why the blogsite was down. Some hacker, apparently. Well, here we are again. It's good to be back. We've been busy with so many things. Unpacking the essentials, some higgledy-piggedly furniture, especially our two rocking chairs. One from Grama in Duncan, for when Joey was born, and one from Jeanette and Steve (God love them), what a great rocking chair that is. Have I written all this before? I can't recall, maybe it's deja vu. In any case those rocking chairs are worth mentioning again. We also bought [View Full Entry]

By Towards the light
August 16th 2007

Woodstock HO!!!

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Well hello again kiddies! I have my office together now so we should be getting the last few blog entries out. This weekend shall be a watershed of blogging I am sure! We were out house hunting again today. Saw a few that we liked, however, after a bottle of wine, we have decided to wait to make a decsion, Well, I have decided to open another bottle of wine and Annie has decided to go to bed. Joey...well, I really don't know where he is.....I am pretty sure we haven't left him at an open house. Deal with it in [View Full Entry]

By Towards the light
August 10th 2007

...testing...testing....is this thing on....one , two thr...oh

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Well hello there campers! I hope this has been an exciting adventure for you. We are working to get the Blog back up. The text should be up soon and the pictures to follow. Settling in here nicely, thank you very much and this weekend we will throw some pictures up of houses that we are thinking of buying. Opinions appreciated! That's all for now. Greg [View Full Entry]

By Towards the light
July 31st 2007

Mayberry...Mayberry not...

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I went to a tractor pull. I ...went to a tractor pull. Life is rather different here. The pace is somewhat slower. We survived the furniture move in, Annie slurping up spiders and Joey suffering with a manual lawn mower. We survived the tractor pull and the Fair and Midway. Only time will tell about the demolition derby. Rest assured that I have a new baseball cap and have begun to say “some” quite a bit. As in “some hot”, “some cold” or “that sure was some storm”. I fought the temptation to use an exclamation point, as peopl [View Full Entry]

By Towards the light
July 28th 2007

Of spiders and cotton candy

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RECOVERED

If you're an arachnophobe, or you love your cotton candy, don't read this. If you're not sure whether you're an arachnophobe, go ahead and read this; if you have a nightmare about spiders tonight, you may be a closet arachnophobe. Well, here we are in our new (rented) home. So, you know those old fashioned houses, really old ones, that no one has been living in for a while? And you know how people decorate their houses on Halloween, with the white spider web stuff with big fat spiders in it? Now take the two together, the house and the spiders, [View Full Entry]

By Towards the light
July 28th 2007

What A Storm!!!

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OMG! Before I drive myself crazy with excitement, let's begin at the beginning. I woke up to my Dad, shaking me, singing: "Good Morning, Good Morning! You've slept the whole night through, Good Morning, Good Morning, to you!" Then we had a lovely breakfast of cereal, bagels, and waffles (With orange juice!), all included in the complimentry Continental Breakfast that you always get when you travel to Best Western's. I severly recomend traveling in the Best Western hotel chain, just don't go to any in Winnipeg, or Thunder Bay. And if you're staying in Quebec, don't go to the Hotele L'Aristrocra [View Full Entry]

By Towards the light
July 26th 2007

The end is nigh?

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House
Joey on the porch.

Greg Well here we are. It has taken a day for me to rest up enough to write this and as I sit here now, I realize that this is may be my last Travel Blog post. How exciting. The town here is very nice. Just how I remembered it. Looking around and at the people as we explore, I can't help but hear my grandmother's voice in my head "God love dem". I have a feeling the longer I stay here, the louder the voices will get. We went by the house yesterday and today. It is in a great [View Full Entry]

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