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By hippy hauler
December 1st 2008

Regina in the praries

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Photo 4

Regina, Saskatchewan. It was a time for family, friends, and finding filters. All the family was joyed to see us, excited for our journey and sad to see us go. The strangers we met were intrigued about our adventure and eager to help us out anyway they could. At times the generosity left us speechless. While the guys were on the hunt for the perfect filtration setup, Emilie aided Chantelle in her seemstress work, raising some funds and sharing Chantelle's fantastic fashions at a local craftfair. With donated machinery, filters and oil loaded up, time with family done, it was time [View Full Entry]

By hippy hauler
November 21st 2008

the first painfully slow filtration set up.

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back alley oil collection

Though our filtration system was not yet fine tuned the guys wanted to get collecting used oil for our stock pile so they went ahead anyways with what filters they had. Almost 4 hours outside in the back alleys of downtown Regina they slowly pumped used oil from the collection bins during the first real snowfall of the season. Getting back after dark cold and wet they took the oil over to the neighbour's heated garage to warm up the oil for further filtration. They were up until 2:30 in the morning but they sure were proud of themselves when all [View Full Entry]

By Jogirlgo
November 6th 2008

After a BUSY Summer

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Not a good start on a summer !!
Trying to see into a robin's nest on a ladder , Del ended up with a couple broken ribs to start out the summer.

Ya, ya , I know ……. by the look of this blog it appears like we “summered over” in Palm Springs area and never got back to Regina in the Spring. Well, we did!! Got back to Regina that is!!! Just NO TIME to blog!!! We arrived back at home at the end of April, in time for the income tax “due date”, and spent the summer with Tasha, Dave and the kidlets with us in Regina from India. We had a GREAT summer and now it’s time to take to the “road “again, or should I say “sky” (this [View Full Entry]

Lots of help was needed with Del out of commission to get the yard ready for summer

Birthday parties and Bon fires in Calgary

By The Open Road
September 24th 2008

Where my Music's Playing

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It's always dangerous to write about experiences that occurred almost two months ago. With the passage of time comes a natural romantisization. The nostalgic part of my brain has already added a soundtrack and cut out the down time. But my warm feelings of Saskatchewan in summer never change. Dennie and I touched down in Regina tired and excited in early July with high expectations of weddings, bbq’s, family dinners, backyard parties, music festivals and camping trips. Another year brought change; relationships came and went, friends moved away and others returned, babies turned into tod [View Full Entry]

By Mel and Nige
July 4th 2008

July 4-5 - Regina, Saskatchewan

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Ghetto Sign
Saskatchewan has the most pathetic province sign of the whole bunch! Maybe we missed it... but thats all we saw

The drive wasn’t too bad but we were both exhausted from the trail. We arrived in Regina around 9 and went to the hostel where we wanted to stay, but it was all full. So we had our first night in a half decent motel. In the morning we headed to the farmers market downtown, which we were expecting to be pretty good since we’re in farm country. However, we were pretty disappointed at the size and selection there. Go figure. We only ended up buying a big bag of spinach and a big bag of mixed field greens, which were [View Full Entry]

By Kiwehowin
May 1st 2008

Day 0

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5 hours to go. Am sufficiently pre-tired. "Pre-tired" is sort of like "pre-drinking", except that it doesn't involve booze. No wait,... "pre-tired" is nothing like "pre-drinking". So, my plan has been to get up 2 or 3 hours earlier than usual, which makes the time difference only +6 rather than +8. Next, on the 8 hour flight to Amsterdam, is to stay awake for the first hour, but then to sleep for at least 6 (17:00 to 23:00 here, 01:00 to 07:00 there). Unless my math is wrong, or the time zones don't work as I planned, I will have completely [View Full Entry]

By Prairie Gypsy
April 29th 2008

3 more sleeps!!!

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Hello everyone! Only 3 sleeps until my folks and I depart for Europe - specifically Portugal and Spain. I'm vibrating with excitement!!! I haven't done the blogging thing since my last trip - to SouthEast Asia last January and thought it might be nice to do it again to share my travels with you, my family and friends. We are spending the first week or so travelling around Portugal and then will head off to Spain. We are overseas 3 weeks in total. I sure am looking forward to the sun! That is about it. I look forward to sharing the [View Full Entry]

By Kiwehowin
April 29th 2008

The last 48 hours

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Okay,... so all that remains is to pack. I think. Routes are planned, bookings are made, passports are valid,... all that good stuff. I'm going to try to figure out if it's possible to show our first excursion in Vienna on a map. Until we get to Europe, there will likely be more posting at the Broads Abroad site. [View Full Entry]

By Graham Richardson
April 23rd 2008

The Time Has Come

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Getting ready for the trip at hand.

The Time Has Come The day has finally arrived and tomorrow I will be setting off to South America for my first real trip. The general route that is planned is to fly into Bogota, Colmbia. From there, travel will take us north to the coast to see the beaches, then back down the western side of Colombia until we reach Ecuador. Some time will be spent in Ecuador before travelling down the coastline of Peru until we reach Lima. After spending several days in Lima, our plane will be boarded and we will return home. When it is squished into [View Full Entry]

By Kiwehowin
April 20th 2008

The Countdown starts now!

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TEN days to go. Crap. I have a lot to do in the meantime. [View Full Entry]

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