Between two snow storms, we made our escape to the south. Of course, we didn't venture too far south to start with...there were friends to visit first! Our first visit was New York, New York. Now New York is a big city. Growing up, my impressions of "the City" were generally of a big, scary, place where no one knows your name, and with lousy weather, as my luck always guaranteed bad weather on city trips. It wasn't until I went to live in another city that I began to appreciate the fascination that people have for New York City. While I still would never live there, it is a pretty cool city. So we set out to discover why millions of people all over the world are fascinated with the city that never sleeps. We ... read more

Ten days with no place to call home. What better way to spend it than a road trip? We only had 10 days, but we had 10 big days, including the Gaspé peninsula, parts of New Brunswick, and Cape Breton and the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Highlights included some amazing camping spots, moose-signs and footprints (but no moose sightings), cute fishing villages, lighthouses, friendly people, crazy drivers and some very large piles of wood (must get cold in winter!) We picked up our rental car the morning of September 1st, and decided that renting cars is a great way to test-drive a vehicle. Our experiences have convinced us to stay away from the go-kart engines of Hyundai's, but that's what we had for our trip! It loved the hills...really (just the drivers behind hated ... read more

This entry is dedicated to our wonderful host and friend, Phil, who sadly left us in September. May you have a wonderful view for eternity. I've always had a bit of a urge to fully explore the Rockies. What better way than to live there? Well, unfortunately, that was far out of our budget, so I'll have to place that back on the dream list. No check-marks here. We left Vancouver ages ago. Ok, it was only at the beginning of the month. We met up with Dave's sister Catherine in Vancouver, got a wonderful tour of North Vancouver thanks to Jayme, took a train through the Rockies, hired a car (yes, this Aussie expression is still slipping in), climbed some mountains, oohed and awwed over the amazing scenery, and became a bit depressed over the ... read more

I had a "where the heck am I?" moment last night. We had gone out for a night on the town in Duncan, BC. We went for the "famous" wing night at the Oak & Carriage Pub (at 35 cents per wing, and too many flavours to choose from, how could you go wrong?), followed by a movie at the 80's era Duncan movie theatre. When the movie ended (we had seen 21) and the lights came up, I had no idea where I was. I was in a familiar setting...a movie theatre. But it was an unfamiliar theatre with some people I didn't know all that well. A moment of utter confusion. That's when I remembered...we were travelling. We actually have started the next chapter. We've been "tourists" for a couple weeks now. Odd. Especially ... read more

Quack! It's been a few months, and our webbed feet are well soaked with the cold rain Goshen's been having. Where is that white stuff we saw in Denver? Snow? Didn't get much of that this year! But soon we'll be off on our next adventure to Canada! Meanwhile, we've been busy little duckies, helping Mel choose photos for our "Duck Tales" book. Quack! It made for a fun little book to remember our adventures by. We didn't print endless copies of the books, so we'll have to post some photos and stories here! Mel's been too busy to type this out for us, so it took us a long time to type. Gulliver kept falling for Aesop's tricks, which led to many misspellings, which delayed this blog entry even more! It's hard to type if ... read more