Well another Canada Day has come and gone and again the Melville clan was lucky enough to spend it together in one of the most beautiful locations around. Thanks to George an Sylvia we were all able to stay together for 5 days surrounding our country's birthday. There was a whopping 35 people, including all the little people who make for a very lively and entertaining time. We were missing some of the key people who usually partake in this annual weekend event. Bruce and Gerry are doing some amazing work with the children in Tanzania and Karen is working hard [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody, well I certainly haven't been doing this blog as much as I anticipated. We have had no internet access for the last 5 days, and even this connection is very slow, so we'll see how it goes. We are currently in Hinton, which is about 45 mins north of Jasper. We have been having a wonderful time. Scenery has been absolutely amazing and weather on the whole has been pretty good. The RV we rented is big and rather luxurious. Certainly big enough for us all. We travelled towards the Rocky Mountains via Hope and a orchard town called [View Full Entry]

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10th July 2008 Bob and I had our last viewing of Eddie swooping down for his food before breakfast with earth coming out from under the house for the extension. We had to catch the ferry at 10.00 from Duke Point to Tsawwassen on the mainland so we packed up and had a last look round before leaving for the ferry. It is sad to be leaving Vancouver Island where there is so much to do and see and we have been made so welcome. Sue and I have exchanged memories of our childhood holidays together and caught up with all [View Full Entry]

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Phew. Almost made it! Seems like we keep on going through things and finding more to do. I still seem to be working on our contact list.. and guess what?! Kwesi comes home with 50 more names for our travel list! Statistics indicates that it takes about two weeks to forget someone. I hope we are not that easy to forget! Here's to "blogging". Proof we are still here. Tonight, I also realized that I had not written down the names and addresses of any of the people we are staying with! That could have been an unpleasant awakening arriving in [View Full Entry]

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13th July 2008 The regular readers of this blog may notice that we have only just discovered that we failed to publish the 10th July in sequence but having already prepared it have now published it, better late than never. Also we have included in todays blog some pictures from yesterday just to confuse you further. After our very late finish last night we slept in until 9-30am this morning. We went for breakfast to Evelyn's Cafe on the high street in Banff. After breakfast we made our way to the summit of Sulpher Mountain by Gondola together with coachloads of [View Full Entry]

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So now we begin the Canadian part of our adventure. We arrived in Vancouver and jumped in a bus that would take us near the hostel that we would be staying in for the next few days. We checked in and popped upstairs to our room, we had a private room with ensuite, a TV and free wireless internet which came in handy, not anything near 5 star but we have found that really you only turn up there to sleep and shower what’s really important is your location. After having a look at all of the tourist brochures in the [View Full Entry]

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It is now 7:45 Tuesday morning. I woke up feeling like I have had very little sleep (tossing and turning). It seems to have been what my unconscious body must have engaged in --- I feel very exhausted ... I believe I am going through the emotions of anxiety, nervousness (what the hell did I just sign up for) and whatever you can think of I am currently experiencing it. The thought of being someone else's keeper and protector (my wife, not that she is not capable of taking care of herself...) Meghan is well travelled so I might just have [View Full Entry]

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I will be heading out on a side trip. I am going to Hawaii this Thursday for work. Keep posted for a new blog. Also we are down to around 57 days till be head out around the world. [View Full Entry]

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It has been more than a month consisting of lots of activity and I have included a lot of photos, hope y'all don't get bored. I pulled into Medicine Hat on Saturday June 14th as schedule and enjoyed four days catching up with Jayne, Kevin and the girls, relaxing, and getting myself and motor home ready for my trip through the Rockies with my friends Carole and Brian from England. On Sunday morning we participated in a Father’s Day walk/run event at the local YMCA. Sarah and I walked, Kevin and Erin ran 5 kilometers and Jayne ran 10 kilometers and [View Full Entry]

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Dianne retired from her job as an elementary school principal in June 2007. She wasn’t really ready to retire, just not willing to keep up the pressure of being a full time principal as well as teaching two days a week. During her “year off” she managed to keep busy as International Student Coordinator one day a week as well as completing a seven week project as Literacy Coordinator. Late last fall, the Superintendent of the system returned from China where he had been working as part of a team evaluating a school system that follows the BC curriculum. He spoke [View Full Entry]

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