Category Archives: Travel

Barbados – will vacation be enough to recover from the stress of preparing to go on vacation?

Posted on April 12, 2022 by Risa

After moving back to Ontario, we decided we were long overdue for a vacation and settled on the Caribbean. Our friends Andi and Dave were in, using the trip as a chance to stop over for a few days at … Continue reading →

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My Stompin’ Grounds – ON

Posted on June 30, 2021 by Risa

Ontario: 23 hrs total, 2100 km Northern Ontario, which is the part of Ontario you enter when coming from Manitoba, makes up part of the Canadian Shield. Most of the roadways are blasted through exposed granite, but parts of the … Continue reading →

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My Stompin’ Grounds – MB

Posted on June 28, 2021 by Risa

Wow, Manitoba. I almost left this post blank, which would sum up our MB drive pretty well. The province is 500 km across the south, or a 5 hour drive without stops. The first thing I noticed when we crossed … Continue reading →

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My Stompin’ Grounds – SK

Posted on June 27, 2021 by Risa

Saskatchewan, potash capital of Canada, stretches 650 km and takes 6 1/2 hours to traverse. It is very beautiful, green, peaceful, flat, and monotonous as all get out. There are no overpasses for intersecting highways, presumably because that would take … Continue reading →

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My Stompin’ Grounds – AB

Posted on June 27, 2021 by Risa

Southern Alberta is far more lovely than I expected. Heading east, it starts with the beautiful rolling foothills and, before long, transforms into the cavernous badlands. This is dinosaur country! Off in the distance are views of the Rockies, reminding … Continue reading →

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My Stompin’ Grounds – BC

Posted on June 26, 2021 by Risa

We prepared quite a detailed plan on how we were going to drive from BC to our new home in Prince Edward County, Ontario. I also spent quite a long time worrying about how we were going to pack everything … Continue reading →

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Home Again – The Fishing Trip That Was

Posted on September 6, 2020 by Risa

This is a short two-purpose post. We were, in fact, successful in our fifth attempt at ocean fishing for salmon! Warren, of the wonderful First Fish Charters, took us for a 7 hour adventure around the south coast of Bowen … Continue reading →

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Sunshine Coast – The Fishing Trip That Wasn’t

Posted on August 26, 2020 by Risa

Jeff and I are generally pretty lucky. We find a Costanza parking space, we get the convenient break on our property taxes just when we need it, and we luck into a great trade-in deal when buying a new car. … Continue reading →

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Okanagan Sat-Sun

Posted on July 8, 2020 by Risa

We rented a boat on Saturday with some friends from Vancouver and there’s not much more to say about that except post a little picture gallery. Really. All we did was drive fast up and down the lake until our … Continue reading →

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Coronavacation 2020 – we interrupt our regularly scheduled programming

Posted on July 7, 2020 by Risa

We took a break from movie watching to go on a vacation to BC, which is a) where we already live and b) what Dr. Bonnie Henry has deemed to be acceptable. And what better place than to head to … Continue reading →

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