Only 10 more days. Now I’m getting excited. Woo-hoo!!!! We had a huge turkey and ham dinner with Chris’ aunts, uncles, mom and dad. Son and dad bonded with Uncle Dave over a game of snooker. Dad won.

After a gruel­ing overnight in the G-hound, we finally made it south to warmer climes. We’ve been in my parent’s adopted homet­own of Sorrento, B.C. now for about three days, and I tell you, retire­ment living has never had it so easy. It’s about 4 degrees celsius, which is down­right balmy for a Canadian January, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]