http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , Canada , New Brunswick , Fredericton en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:59:51 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:59:51 UTC 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 a http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-296991.html 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 p http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-211302.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-199127.html 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 higgledypiggedly 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 http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-194597.html Well hello again kiddiesI 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 sureWe 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 decsionWell I have decided to open another bottle of wine and Annie has decided to go to bed. Joey... http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-192919.html 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 appreciatedThat's all for now.Greg http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-190736.html 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 ldquosome http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-190735.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-186583.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-186303.html GregWell 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 th http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-185874.html The night we stayed at Le Hotel Aristrocrate was absolutey horrible Everything was so cramped the beds were bad and what really made me upset was it had a 4 star hotel rating from the Quebec rating company and 4 stars from the national hotel rating commitee The only thing that was good was the food. That was it. So if you ever find yourself going to Quebec City make sure that you don't stay http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-185256.html To FrederictonBrad and Treena From Charlottetown PEI to here in Fredericton has been our most consistent biking of the trip. We are consisitently biking 100km day after day and are now giving ourselves a break. Today is the first day we have had off since we started cycling again from Stephenville. From Charlottetown we rode 60km to the Confederation Bridge. Bikes are not allowed on the bridge http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-163578.html Irsquove had trouble contacting the hostel in Fredericton to tell them that I wanted to cancel my booking. Irsquove tried contacting them all the way back since I was in New York but all I get is an answering machine with my cell phone number. Irsquom going to be spending the night at Kryssiersquos house after what will be a huge Thanksgiving meal I wait for a hotel shuttle outside of http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-155047.html We are Nancy and Hector leaving on January 3 2007 for a 4 month trip. We are celebrating Nancy's retirement after 35 years as an educator. This trip is intended to break the 'think about work all the time' mode whihc has been part of Nancy's life for many years. We will return to some places for which we have fond memories from earlier trips reconnect with old friends and visit new location http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-109442.html I like the feeling of this place for reasons similar to why I liked Halifax. It is old at least old in terms of Canada's history has a military history that is still displayed and it has a university right in the middle of the city.I walked through the university grounds and then throughout the city centre checking out coffee houses and pubs. The slogan of Fredericton is Let our life flow t http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-80784.html So the weekend that we have been looking forward to all summer has arrived the long weekend at the cottage This weekend is a tradition with our extended family we all gather for a rockus weekend of fishing horseshoes golf visiting and of course eating. Good times were had by all. Even for Dan although the 79 new faces of our multitude of relatives were somewhat overwhelming. Thanks to all m http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-80227.html Fredericton was the first stop of this three province journey. I fell in love with more than one thing there. Considering returning there someday but secondguessing my motives of course.The love of the Saint John River. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/Canada/New-Brunswick/Fredericton/blog-2466.html