Fall 2011

Admit­tedly, in the past 6 months or so since our wed­ding, the fre­quency of our adven­tures has ebbed to a rel­a­tive low.  We have tem­porar­ily shifted our gazes inward, to our home, and each other.  Not a bad thing, unless you have your hearts set on lots of new blog posts…

On the Sep­tem­ber long week­end, we headed out west.  We spent the first night in Yoho National Park, at a provin­cial camp­ground.  To our great sur­prise, we ran into some friends of ours at the same camp­ground in the morn­ing.  It was great to have break­fast with

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December 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alberta, British Columbia, Camping, Road Trip, Ziggy | Comments are closed

Wedding Voyage 2011 — Conclusion

By now, we’ve been home for approx­i­mately two months; our fun travel adven­tures are always tough to leave behind; but the con­tin­u­ing tran­si­tion into mar­ried life is its own adventure.

Here is the com­pleted map of our wed­ding trip travels:

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We arrived back in Cal­gary in the mid­dle of the Cal­gary Stam­pede with Brian hav­ing asthma/allergy breath­ing issues (likely due to all the hay in town for Stam­pede) and try­ing to get back in the swing of the work­ing world and not hav­ing a new hot spring soak every day. We have

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July 15th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alberta, British Columbia, Camping, Road Trip, Vacation, Wedding, Ziggy | Comments are closed

Wedding Voyage 2011 - Halfway & Nelson

Wednes­day morn­ing, we had break­fast by a crash­ing road­side water­fall — scram­bled eggs and gar­lic pan-fried pota­toes.  A few peo­ple, see­ing the sign in our back win­dow, stopped to congratulate us.

After break­fast and cof­fee, we headed on to Halfway hot springs, which we’d never pre­vi­ously been to.  While wan­der­ing around try­ing to locate the path “down”, we said hello to a cou­ple ran­dom hip­pies — and were sur­prised to real­ize we knew these hip­pies.  It was Tarzie, and her hus­band and baby.  I’ve known Tarzie for years through the Cal­gary Burner com­mu­nity!  An awe­some sur­prise to find them by

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July 8th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: British Columbia, Camping, Road Trip, Vacation, Wedding, Ziggy | Comments are closed

Wedding Voyage 2011 - St. Leon

Upon leav­ing Sparkling Hill (which was sad to leave — I’m sure we’ll be back for anniver­saries down the road!), we headed back to Kathy’s & Dave’s to pick up our wed­ding gifts and left­over wed­ding booze.  We also dis­cov­ered around this point that Brian’s wal­let seemed to be miss­ing.  I’d put the hotel on my credit card, so we hadn’t needed or thought about Brian’s wal­let since some time before the wed­ding.  We each searched the van, to no avail.  We also looked around Kathy’s & Dave’s place — also no luck.  I was sure it must just be

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July 7th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: British Columbia, Camping, Road Trip, Vacation, Wedding, Ziggy | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Sparkling Hill

We all slept in the morn­ing after the wed­ding.  Some very groggy peo­ple finally started to stir around 9.  A cou­ple peo­ple didn’t man­age to roll on out of bed until after noon!

We drank cof­fee and cleaned up the yard and the kitchen, and stopped for many more good­byes as peo­ple fil­tered out to jour­ney back home.

Mid after­noon, the last of us finally left Kathy’s & Dave’s.  We headed up to Sparkling Hill Resort, on Lake Okana­gan.  Fer­nando, Nathan, and Stella came with us to take a look around.

It’s a fan­tas­ti­cally glitzy place — owned by Swarovski.

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July 6th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: British Columbia, Road Trip, Vacation, Wedding | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
 
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