Blogs from Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 3

Today we left the mountains of Montana and went out onto the plains. There wasn't much wildlife, but the horses are sleek and fat! There were lots of horses and cattle. Nancy enjoyed identifying new wildflowers the last few days, but she wondered how many new ones she was missing as we barrelled up the road! Our goal was to get into Canada today. It took us about an hour to get through the border. We bought whiskey at the duty-free store. Then we had to go through immigration to declare the shotgun and pay for its permit. It was actually a painless border crossing, but thorough. We continued on up the highway and noticed that southern Alberta looks a lot like northern Montana. That's odd how a different country could look so like ours. Hmm. ... read more

Day 53. Thursday. It was a rainy day when me auf brother Raule... I miss those commercials. I have no idea where that came from. I got up around 0930hrs due to nature screaming. I had looked up an oil change place the day I arrived so I already knew where I was going, problem is the GPS map is too old and there is no street listing where I was headed so I entered in the street name and the highest number it showed. As the GPS was taking me right past the street I needed to turn at I spotted the place and made a quick U-turn. Now the guy may know exactly what he is talking about but right away he starts in "you should run synthetic because...", and then the fuel pressure ... read more

Alaskans have been referring to us as being from "down below." So we assume they think they're from "up above." How does that make you feel?? Yes, me too! So we're leaving and going "down below." We left the bears in Hyder, AK to cross British Columbia on the Yellowstone Highway, heading toward Jasper National Park. We held up in Prince George longer than expected to avoid the crowds celebrating the BC summer holiday at Jasper. Actually there was not a campground to be found there. We enjoyed having wi-fi provided by the park and looked forward to having amenities like phone and computer reception again. (Our last phone reception was in Tok, AK., over a week ago.) We enjoyed a hike with Harley in the “Forrest of the World,” assumedly named by ones who loved ... read more

Baseball has always been a featured sport in our community. Over the last four years, the old baseball stadium has been totally renewed through the motivational efforts of a few individuals linked with a great deal of work by volunteers and committees. A baseball acadamy has been inaugurated in our high school and is attracting great players. The Acadamy team, the Vauxhall Jets, has received great respect from baseball entusiasts. The long-standing other team of players aged 15-19, the Vauxhall Spurs, involved each season with the American Legion Montana State "A" League continue to succeed, benefitting from the acadamy influence. This week, Vauxhall has been chosen as the first Canadian community to host the State Championship Tournament, thus testing the new stadium's full capabilities for the first time. By my obseravtions, it has passed with flying ... read more

April 16th. I dont' have any news to add, but am just playing with the blog to see how to work it. Thanks for your patience!... read more