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The past couple blog-less months have been more or less spent preparing for the official word on moving to Vancouver. Pretty much after my second trip to Vancouver in February Erin and I were sold on the move. Literally the day we got back to Edmonton we ripped out the kitchen and redid it. New windows were put in, fresh paint went on, and after sitting in an unfinished state for four years or so, a tile-less shower finally got tiled. All of this was done to give us a quick and easy sale of the house and allow us to get out fast. It’s amazing what you can get done if you have too. Kitchen before Painted cupboards Scott being a great brother From House for Sale – Kitchen after From House for Sale – The “5 year” shower On top of the renos there has been 4 trips to Vancouver. The first trip out was work related however Erin came out for the weekend. We spent one afternoon looking at aplace that backed onto Granville Island. Any dou...

Posting without having pictures to reference is a lot harder than one would think. Personally this shouldn’t be a shock, I have a hard time remembering what I ate for breakfast let alone what I did 2 weeks ago. So I apologize for the following short recap of March: Yellowknife: Headed north and in the process left +8 weather for -27. Spring had yet to sprung north of 60. Never-the-less I headed further north for work and spent the nights at Ma’s. One highlight I do remember is visiting the SnowKing Castle. Every year an eccentric local builds a bigger and better castel made of snow. This year it housed several concerts including one by my friend Aaron a.k.a “Godson” Sadly I did not take the above picture…my pictures were much better. For more info on the castle click here. Montreal: I left Yellowknife bright an early Easter Saturday (is there even an Easter Saturday??) and flew to Ottawa via Calgary. In Ottawa in met up with Erin who had taken the trai...

Visiting Frank’s Slide Last week I was working in southern Alberta and stayed in Waterton Park which is a ghost town mid-week in the winter. The clerk at the hotel I stayed at said the population of the town shrinks to around 70 people in the winter. Still, a very pretty spot. I was fortunate enough to stop and take in some Alberta history by visiting Frank’s Slide. In the early morning of April 29, 1903, 82 million tonnes of lime stone broke away from Turtle mountain and crushed Frank…Frank being the busy mining town in the Crows Nest pass area. I had read about the site before but had no idea how huge the slide was. It looks as if a chunk of the mountain was blasted off. Hard to imagine there is a town (and 70 people) buried under it all.

This is the end… My only friends…the end?? Or is it? Yes, yes it is…Or is it?? I t has been an amazing journey. 9 months ago I had no idea what I had coming. I laughed, I cried, I ate some cheese. And now its gone. The time, not the cheese…well technically the cheese is long gone but that’s not the point. The point is I had the time of my life and now it’s over. Wow, that sounds depressing. It’s not…It’s fantastic. I have learned a lot and gotten a lot out of my time and hopefully have become a better person from it. I have just gotten a taste of traveling and have met people from all over the globe. I plan to visit, you have been warned…just not today…or tomorrow but consider buying a cot or a futon soon. These 9 months may be gone but won’t be forgotten thanks to this blog. Al has been printing my postings out so I can put them in a photo album along side my pictures. Thank you Al. Something else I would love...