Tag: Alberta

Our Biggest Adventure Yet! (drumroll please)

Hey gang,
Chris and Laura here again. Well, we’ve been teasing all of you with subtle men­tions of our big news. If you’ve been fol­low­ing along for the past several months, you’ll know that our plans have already changed more than once, so one more big change shouldn’t be too much of a sur­prise. Our original [...]

Dinosaur Bone Bed Near Grand Prairie

Grand Prairie... um?
Chris and I had an enjoy­able time hanging out with family and going swim­ming with the kids (our nieces and nephews).  We also had a lovely visit with Brian Brake one evening and got to see the gor­geous house he managed to ren­ov­ate almost entirely in the first two months of being here. [...]

Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada

Today is our last day in the North. Around lunch time (in about 3 hours), we’ll be taking a bus to a place called Dawson Creek, where we’ll catch another one to Kamloops, B.C. This’ll be the longest Greyhound ride of our Canadian leg, and all told we’ll be in Greyhound’s nasty clutches for about [...]

Eyeball twitch

Chris and I had a good visit with friends and my family in Edmonton. We saw Avatar in the IMAX theatre. It was enter­tain­ing and ima­gin­at­ive. Besides that, we sat around eating, drinking,watching T.V. and chat­ting.
It’s been a good trip so far, without any mishaps. Surprisingly it’s not entirely stress free. I think the “not [...]

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Ahhhh, Edmonton in the win­ter­time. Luckily we had some good friends and family to soften the blow of –30 degree tem­per­at­ures.
Yup. Seems like we covered most of our bases in Alberta’s capital city. We’re now about 5 hours north, in a place I tend to think of as the other armpit of Alberta (second only [...]