Rae | September 30, 2008
The park where I’m staying runs through the winter, but with only a small section of its sites open. When I pulled in last week, they didn’t have a spot in their winterized section available, so they put me in their ‘about to be closed’ section and told me I’d probably have to move today. [...]
Rae | September 30, 2008
Today was the kind of day that makes you realise that you’ve been given enough gifts to last a lifetime and that asking for anything more is just greed talking. I had a lot of misgivings and preconceptions about Banff. I expected it to be kitschy, expensive, and over rated. By the time I got [...]
Rae | September 28, 2008
Scary moment of the day: I had to scrape a thick layer of frost off my car this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Driving into Calgary today, I had to take this picture: That’s not a lake down there. It’s a fog-shrouded town! Preamble to my day: 1) Yes, I was a history major and am still a history [...]
Rae | September 28, 2008
Calgary The only thing on my schedule for today was a visit of Fort Calgary. It’s a small museum, but the exhibits about the NWMP and the history of Calgary are quite interesting. I was accosted at one point by a retired RCMP officer who proceeded to talk my ear off for about twenty minutes [...]
Rae | September 26, 2008
I woke up this morning and looked out all the windows as I always do to see how things changed over night (two neighbours gone, one added). I then noticed two bulging bags on my picnic table with a piece of paper flapping in the breeze. The note said: “We go back to Holland today. [...]
