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 [...]

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 [...]

Hey all, For those inter­ested, I thought I’d throw up a quick update of our latest travel plans (sure to change again). We’re recon­sid­er­ing going to Iran given the current escal­a­tion of anti-government sen­ti­ment in the past couple of weeks. We’ll see how stable things are when we get closer to the Turkey/Iran border, as [...]

It’s been a long week since Christmas. We are both pretty much dead tired, but at least our move is over. Our cat Zappa is in his new home, and we are heading north on the Red Arrow bus to Edmonton. This actu­ally marks us finally leaving Calgary behind. On the morning of New Years’ [...]