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 — Lussier & White River (East Fork)

Fri­day brought us another beau­ti­ful day and more hot springs!  After the tra­di­tional pan­cakes with blue­ber­ries (and a bit of scram­bled eggs on the side), we drove from Goat River to Cran­brook where we restocked some sup­plies (Tim Hor­tons cof­fee, bbq lighter, s’more fixin’s).

We drove up through Kim­berly and Inver­mere, before wind­ing our way up to Lussier hot springs.

The hot springs were PACKED:  A cou­ple fam­i­lies with small kids, a big group of rowdy drink­ing teenage boys, and a few qui­eter older cou­ples.  With the river run-off still so high, only one pool was acces­si­ble, and it was ‘warm’ at best.  Everyone

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Wedding Voyage 2011 - Ainsworth & Goat River Canyon

Thurs­day morn­ing we got up, and aimed almost imme­di­ately for Ainsworth Hot Springs.  These are the first com­mer­cial ones of our lit­tle hot springs tour, but still well worth it.  If you’ve never stopped in here, it’s worth check­ing out at least once.  There’s a lit­tle cave where the springs come out of the moun­tain, and you can walk through the hot, waist-deep water.  There’s also a lit­tle cold-plunge pool, which I was even brave enough to use this time around!  Twice!  My dad used to do it, and tried to con­vince us, but one toe in the water was

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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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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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