Archive for August, 2009
Nelson
Hello dear friends. We are now in the town of Nelson in the Kootenay mountains in southern B.C. It’s less extreme than the rockies but still so beautiful, and the many lakes and rivers in this area are not of glacial temperatures so they invite swims which is thrilling. The weather in general is warmer [...]
how bout those lakes
We travelled from Golden To Banff in Alberta. We had a very pleasing interlude when my friend Anna from NYC suddenly decided she would pay us a visit. Within days of asking if she could meet us she flew to Calgary to hang with us for 2 days. We met her at Calgary airport which [...]
Golden
So here we are in Golden, B.C. a very dreamy town. Camped by the Kicking Horse River a beautiful muddy fast flowing mountain river separating us from the train tracks.
a few metres from our vanBj has been riding his bike up on Kicking Horse mountain where they have ski lifts operating for mountain bikers [...]
TRANS CANADA
Well we have crossed the prairies and reached the mountains. From lakes to prairies to mountains, what a joy.
The prairies, described by my friend (aka employer, Georgia’s dad) Matt, upon my telling him we were driving across Canada, as “basically a nightmare of boredom”, I found to be utterly mesmerising. I truly love them. [...]in the province of manitoba
Greetings from Manitoba. Portage la Prairie is where we are right now. Hello the prairies!
Northern Ontario from Sault Sainte Marie to Thunder Bay was a beautiful drive, following the north shore of Lake Superior. Which is really an utterly stunning picturesque lake…
We arrived in Manitoba yesterday. We didn’t stop in Winnipeg because although [...]
Sault Sainte Marie
Hello friends from northern Ontario. Bj and I have finally left Toronto for our summer travels. So happy are we to be on the road again. We left on Saturday morning. BIG MISTAKE as it was a long weekend and we didn’t realise, it took us hours and hours to get just a short distance [...]
