Blogs from Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, North America - page 7

How time flies, I've been in Canada for just over a month! Heres a re-cap of whats happened so far After departing Sydney on Jan 7th (the day after winning my 2nd NSW Open Decathlon title!) i had a direct flight to Vancouver. 14 hours and alot of inflight movies later i landed at Vancouver International Airport and proceeded to the nearest Tim Hortons for a taste of Canada - its soooo good! I had a 3 hour layover which i spent wandering around the airport. I stepped outside into the -5 wearing my shorts and hoodie - not so bad! I then boarded an Air Canada Jazz flight to Regina. We flew over the rockies, which were beautiful. I knew we were getting close to Regina once the landscape flattened out and became fields of ... read more

Well I believe this will be my travel blog for anyone who's interested as long as its not too complicated. If you subscribe; every time I update the blog you will get an email saying so. Mom/Dad please send the link on to family members whos email addresses i dont have. I believe you can also send messages on here as well, but facebook is easier... The itinerary so far is Fiji from Nov 29th-Dec 23rd, New Zealand Dec 23rd-Feb 14th, and Australia from Feb 14th until Juneish. So people send me lots of messages and I will try to keep you informed of whats happening in my random life.... read more

Well here we are , "on the road again" , driving out of the driveway on Nov. 3rd ( we always seem to leave 2 days later than what we plan .... next year I'm going to pretend to leave on Oct. 29 and see if we can REALLY get away on Nov.1 ) with that "ahhhhh finally ", .... feeling that everything is covered for the next 6 months .... mail, cable, phone, water heater, etc.,etc. Content in that what we had forgotten would just be left behind and we would just have to "deal with it" !!! Our first stop would be in Calgary to visit family and friends before leaving Canada. Of course that included an early "mini Christmas" with our 2 grandgirls, plus their parents. Among our christmas gifts were a set ... read more

As summer holidays go, this year has been so awesome. We have lost ourselves in exploring Saskatchewan and touching base with so many people from our immediate and extended families. One thing that we have been faced with on occasion is a lack of internet access. Of course this does not help us with getting the blog posted in a timely manner. However, for the past few weeks we have indeed had internet access. Why aren’t we up to date with our blog? We have become immersed in the experience of being on holidays and having no deadlines, commitments, or schedules. Not a bad deal…slowing down and enjoying the moment. After our week at Otter Lake we returned to Saskatoon. Aside from taking care of some banking and other trivial things it was a rather uneventful ... read more

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 names of the streets. Using the map we were directed to a small road on the east side of town. But if the trail was there, it was going straight up a long steep hill, ... read more