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By MazzJazz
June 29th 2007

Day One: Arriving at Loon Lake and the Attack of the Winged Creature

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Leaving Edmonton Every journey has a starting point. For our vacation trek, it was Edmonton, AB. Matt, having the previous few days off, packed and loaded the vehicle while Laura managed to sneak away from work early. While arguing over what Laura actually meant by 'leaving the city at noon', the Lancer (our vehicle of choice for the trip) backed down the driveway at 11:53AM. Our journey had begun! A quick pit-stop at Petro Canada saw us load up on fuel and we took off towards Lloydminster (or Lloyd-dumpster as the natives call it). Now it is at this point [View Full Entry]

By R N O B
June 29th 2007

Flying High at the Kite Festival

North America » Canada » Saskatchewan » Swift Current

Kites Big & Small

If you have a chance to attend the Swift Current Kite Festival; our family would highly recommend it. Owen has been asking for the past couple of years and we have always been tied up with other commitments. With our departure from Eastend being relatively immanent and Owen's birthday coming up we decided to surprise Owen by taking him, his brother and his three best friends to the kite festival to celebrate his birthday. The festival was awesome! We saw some amazing aerial displays, as one-band, a mentalist(magician), and the boys made their own kites. One really neat thing that happened [View Full Entry]

By super60
June 28th 2007

Fall Down Go Boom!

North America » Canada » Saskatchewan » Regina

28 june '07 View towards Echo Lake, Fort Qu'Appelle, Sk

Fall Down Go Boom! Thursday, 28 June 2007 Today Bob & Panna brought me to back to Fort Qu’Appelle, where I was hoping to locate a fairly long stretch of the Trans Canada Trail. Both yesterday & again today I’d inquired at the local tourist information centre to see if the folks there (volunteers, I think) knew where I could find its start - usually it’s pretty well marked once you find it. Unfortunately the couple there, although nice, knew nothing about the trail. At least this morning I had with me a map which showed it, just didn’t indicate the [View Full Entry]

By Bothan Taistil
June 27th 2007

Biking Regina, Saskatchewan

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Canada Maureen Kelly/Robert Tait June 27. We left Williston early and began our drive to Canada, Regina, which is the capital of Saskatchewan. Crossing the border in these remote areas is a lot easier than some of the busier crossings. We stayed out on the edge of town and drove into town. There we found a great biking trail around the Wascana Center. It is on of the largest urban parks in North America. After biking for a while around the lake we headed into town on Albert Street. It is a biker friendly town., and we bi [View Full Entry]

By super60
June 27th 2007

All the way to Ft. Qu'Appelle!

North America » Canada » Saskatchewan » Regina

All the way to Ft. Qu’Appelle! Wednesday, 27 June 2007 Although it was still pretty cool this morning, it was nowhere as bad as yesterday, so I took Blue & cycled from our hotel to Fort Qu’Appelle. Bob & Panna would come along later to meet me & bring me back. Fortunately the winds were favourable, for the most part, and with a bit of encouragement from Bob, who told me at 50-km that it was only another 13+ km to Fort Qu’Appelle & that the route would finish with a LONG descent, I decided to go all the way. (And [View Full Entry]

By super60
June 26th 2007

It’s supposed to be summer!!

North America » Canada » Saskatchewan » Regina

26 june '07 view from car park at Wascana Nature Preserve, Sk

It’s supposed to be summer!! Tuesday, 26 June 2007 Today dawned cold and WINDY. Cold and windy enough that I decided against even trying to ride a bike today. Bob had gone to a lot of trouble to clean the mud off of Silver, so that I could use that bike on the trails again today, but it just didnt seem like it would be worth the effort. And I figured I should spend the odd day with him & Panna. So we drove to the Wascana Valley Natural Provincial Recreation Site - long name, sorry! This place had been mentioned [View Full Entry]

By super60
June 25th 2007

MUD MUD MUD!!!

North America » Canada » Saskatchewan » Regina

25 june 2007 Panna running in the grass, Lumsden, Sk

Mud Mud Mud!!! Monday, 25 June 2007 Yesterday we drove from Moose Jaw to Regina. It’s not very far away, but we had taken pretty much everything out from the van, partly to assess what we had, plus to keep it from sliding around as we drove around. So it took a bit of time to get everything “in place” & where it was wanted in the van. Upon arriving in Regina we WERE able to check into our hotel early, and then we went to lunch at a nearby place called “Burger Baron” which advertises itself as having been voted [View Full Entry]

25 june 2007 Panna digging for prairie dogs, Regina, Sk

By super60
June 23rd 2007

IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED...

North America » Canada » Saskatchewan » Moose Jaw

23 june '07 View along the Trans Canada Trail, Moose Jaw, Sk

IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED... Saturday, 23 June 2007 Took Silver out today, as I REALLY wanted to locate the TransCanada Trail in Moose Jaw, and I wasn’t sure how rough it would be. It would pretty much be my last chance to do so, as we’re leaving for Regina on Sunday. Needless to say I completely botched up the first times I tried to locate it. I rode directly from our motel to where I though it would be & in fact found a large sign which seemed to indicate I should turn left at the next corner. I [View Full Entry]

By Bawchee
June 23rd 2007

We're BACK

North America » Canada » Saskatchewan » Regina

Alright. Trip's over. We made it home safe. We're back. See you around. -Mike [View Full Entry]

By ChrisandBrianna
June 23rd 2007

I am wired for Syntatic Complexity

North America » Canada » Saskatchewan » Meadow Lake Provincial Park

We left Clearwater around 10:30 and paid 17 bucks for the site, which is good compared to the $30 we paid in Ontario. We skipped the showers ($1 for 4 minutes!) and headed out for Flin Flon, and Saskatchewan. We were a little surprised to see rocks again. In Ontario, rock faces where roads were blasted through are common. In Manitoba, we hadn’t really seen anything like this until we approached the border. More interesting was that Manitobans tend to make a LOT more graffiti than Ontarians, possibly because there is less traffic and thus less chance of being caught. It [View Full Entry]

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