Canada Stories


Banff and Calgary - Canada Day

Banff, Alberta, Canada Canada Day, very busy everywhere. People have Canadian flags painted on their faces. Beautiful hike in Jasper, Valley of the Five Lakes. The first four lakes changed in colors in different shades of green, emerald green to jade green. The last lake was brown and had moss growing in the middle of the lake. This is due to the...


Post-Script

12,080 kilometres later… It was a quest, an Odyssey, and Jer and I conquered it! We have seen a lot and we have lots of stories to tell. My thoughts on the road: - This is a freakin’ beautiful land. We are blessed to have been given this opportunity to see it. - We have wonderful people in our lives and we are so grateful for the love and su...


Day 23

Sun. Jul. 31: London, ON ~ Home What a novelty: to have a home again. I’m back. Many miles and kilometres later… About 12,080 kms. And now what? I return to the life I know. (Like this never happened?) I am transitioning today. Everything feels and looks different. Strangely familiar, but more strange, and I have to keep on reminding myself tha...


Day 22

Sat. Jul. 30, 2011: Portage, IN ~ Frankenmuth/Birch Run, MI ~ London, ON If there were time, we would’ve explored the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, but there was none. Just time for a walk in a park in Portage, to say Jer got a geocache in this state, and we had to go. The weather was magnificent, sunny and hot and Lake Michigan looked so inv...