Blogs from Saskatchewan, Canada, North America

So here I am 3 months after my big trip from Thailand... I've had a lot of time to reflect and settle from what was the best time of my life :P I'm keeping my pictures up on my laptop so I have some sort of guide and try to remember all the things I got to see. My first few hours in Thailand were very "ugh". I may have not showed it to the girls but I was completely dead to the world. Even though I was so happy I was in this gorgeous country, I was still adjusting lol. When I got to see my room I was so happy to see a big bed! I had my own little place for the next 3 weeks. It was so pretty and smelled so good. ... read more

Hello folks! Before I start to ramble on, I want to let you know that there are some odd words and symbols etc. in the blog. I think this is because I copied and pasted from an email. I can't fingure out how to get rid of it without redoing the whole thing. Since I am off to work in 10 minutes, I am just going to ask for your forgiveness! Hope you enjoy the blog and hoping everyone is happy and well. Love as always, Weedie and Jeepa! xoxo We enjoyed Super Bowl Sunday in Regina. We had a room in the hotel and the whole team came. We started with a moving speech from Lonnie our endurance participant. He told the team about his accident in graphic detail. It was quite moving. I think ... read more

CANADA ON THE RAILS, WEST THRU THE PRAIRIES We left Winnipeg at about one in the afternoon, Saturday, September 24, having spent the morning in the train station visiting family of choice we had not seen for far too long and enjoying them and their two-year old first grand child. Let me tell you, there is nothing so engaging as a freshly minted Bubby in her junior years. And if you give her as much space as the entrance of the Winnipeg railway station in which to engage the child, it is just extra-ordinary, quite extra-ordinary, while Zaida simply wears that same smile of quiet content he did some forty years ago. We sat on the hind of our train in the bullet dome, pre-lunch aperitifs on ice in hand, quite content, as we watched the ... read more

After a year and a bit of saving like mad things, our trip is just two sleeps away! Buried somewhere beneath the thoughts of "What the holy shizznit are we doing?!", there is a lot of excitment. I've packed my bag countless times, done waaaay too much banking, and read confusing but apparently important documents constantly for the past few months in preparation. We will be travelling for a total of 30 hours with an eight hour layover in Vancouver and a five hour layover in L.A. I'm hoping as payment for all the gruelling waiting we'll at least spot a celebrity :P Once we land in Auckland, NZ, we will be piling into our pre-booked shuttle and going to our hostel where we have booked a three night stay in a ten person dorm (there ... read more

The only reason this feels so weird is because I still cannot believe I made this trip happen! Everything right now just feels so surreal. Guess its about damn time I start believing! Haha! Off to Phuket in about 7 work days and 14 days till my 1pm flight sets off from Vancouver! So this is my first blog. I know nothing about blogging except that Tammy told me to because it will be nice to look back on all the things I am feeling at the moment :) It does feel pretty good. Looking back on everything I can't believe I am so blessed to have a friend/family member like Tammy. She is someone who I admire and look up to. She helped me through a difficult time in my families lives and after that ... read more

We arrived back at our farm at 8:34 this evening after driving from Revelstoke, BC. My attempt to blog this morning was unsuccessful, don't know why I could view but not make a new entry. The night before last we stayed at Larrabee ( not Larramy as I said a couple of times earlier in our trip) State Campground - even got our same camp0site as before, with water tap and garbage across the trail and washrooms very close. This time I put 50 cents in the shower instead of 25 and had a hot shower! Yesterday morning I took a 10 minute walk to the "beach" which is actually a piece of rocky coastline, but kind of a neat walk through large ceders, ferns, split ceder railings along the path, etc. I even picked a ... read more

Still seems surreal that we are finally doing our East trip across Canada and down the US coast. My focus this summer was our daughter, Chelsea’s, wedding on September 3, 2011. It was a beautiful wedding, and we are so very happy to now have Cole Shepherd as part of our family. So, I am leaving with happy thoughts (though sad too, realizing that it will be awhile before we see our kids again), pleased that everything went so well.... read more

Left Melfort later afternoon, supper in Saskatoon with our daughter, got to our farm at 10 PM. Looked frantically for my passport which I could not find in Melfort, and finally decided it must be in Melfort. Decided to drive back there early morning to get it as I cannot get into the USA without it.... read more

We spent last night in a campground we got out of the 2011 RV and Campground guide from Trailer Life Directory. Compfort Plus RV Park, White City, Sask. A place we won't come to again. We usually don't complain about a place, but this place is a rip off. We thought because it is listed in the book that it would be nice, and this is the first place worth complaining about. It is on a terrible road, kind of in a backyard of a farm, they have lots of spaces, but not enough water pressure to go around. Took my reservation, but when we got here they were confused about where to put us......anyway my rating for this place is 5 out of 10. If that even matters. Our last days in Winnipeg were great. ... read more