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It was Saturday morning, and it was time to pack-up and leave Vancouver. We had a great time, but unfortunately ran out of time to do all the things we really wanted to do - a whale watching adventu
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Again, nice and sunny. Our luck has been excellent from a weather front.
After breakfast the kids took the opportunity to enjoy the parks pool once again. With a fairly lax schedule today (only a fe
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Current location: Missoula, Montana - approximately 450 Kilometers from West Yellowstone (Todays destination).
We left Vancouver two days ago after a great time. Unfortunately we ran out of time to
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The alarm went off at 7AM. The generator was still humming away despite my concerns that it might run out of fuel through the night, and upon inspection it still had over 1/4 of a tank of fuel, meani
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The drizzly and cold weather of Thursday was gone and the sun was shining once again and the temperatures were forecasted to be pleasantly warm all day. Despite being thwarted in our efforts to go ho
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Our stretch of good weather came to an end - with the impending arrival of hot sticky weather forecasted for the weekend the weather had changed to cool and drizzly. It wasn’t pouring rain, but
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As was growing customary, we once again woke up to bright blue skies and comfortable temperatures.
Running out of clean clothes there was a necessity to do some laundry before we did anything else.
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Waking up we were once again bathed in sunshine, and a quick look at the forecast proved that we were to enjoy this sort of weather for the full duration of our time in Vancouver. Great!
We started o
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We awoke to the polar opposite of the weather we had left behind the night before - it was now warm and sunny, and the winds were virtually calm.
With little to do at the campground we were not long
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Sure enough when we woke up Sunday morning it was raining, and had been on and off through the night. Many of the one-night local campers were disappointed and promptly packed up and departed early,
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(Note: No, we are not dead! We have arrived in Vancouver and are having a blast, but WiFi has been tough to find so I’m a bit behind updating the blog. I’m trying to catch up tonight- W
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We awoke to brilliant sunshine outside our bedroom windows. I cranked open my blinds and sat on the edge of the bed, gazing at the view - and wow, what a spectacular view - one of the 8000 foot snowc
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We have arrived at Banff and all is well. Unfortunately internet service has been spotty for the last few days. Theres lots of wifi in downtown Banff, but none near our campsite that i can use for b
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Day 7: Calgary area to Banff
The alarm went off at 7:00 AM - an hour before the WalMart actually opened. The furnace had run perfectly all night long keeping us cozy and warm, and the weather had im
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Day 6: Regina to Calgary area.
Our relaxing evening at the campground in Regina was a brief reprieve from what would be yet another long driving day.
We packed up after a quick breakfast, and after
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Waking up to brilliant sunshine (but cool temperatures) we got underway quickly. Just cereal for breakfast this morning - Christie dashed into the Walmart to pickup some groceries while the rest of
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We awoke in Thunder Bay to another dreary grey day. It seems that we’ve been underneath questionable weather since departing home 4 days ago, but the forecast shows that at some point on our we
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Awaking Sunday morning after what turned out to be an unsurprisingly bad nights sleep it turns out that our scenic lookout is actually fairly scenic, and the scenery is about 1 feet from our front doo
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Up at 7:30 to the sound of chirping birds outside our bedroom window. The sun is shining in and the temperature and humidity has subsided to much more comfortable levels.
We make pancakes for breakf
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The best laid plans never go as intended. We didn’t roll out of our driveway until 1:30 PM instead of the intended noon departure. Not the end of the world.
We still missed 90% of the usual T
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At about noon tomorrow we are ready to head out. Day one only takes us about 450 Kilometers (270 miles) north to Sudbury Ontario where we plan to spend the evening and a good part of Saturday visitin
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Well, let’s see, what else can go wrong 7 days before departing on a 30 day driving vacation?
1/ Todays dentist visit to investigate a problematic tooth discovered a major problem requiring dent
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Sixteen days from today we will be departing on our planned
one month RV adventure to the west coast and back. A trip that we’ve been tossing around
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My blog (and other sites still hosted with 1&1) just returned this afternoon from a three (THREE!) day outage.
I awoke Monday morning to notice that my status-monitor widget was reporting ping tim
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Why is the Quicktime Pro upgrade $29 on the US Apple website, but $38 on the Canadian website? Perhaps you failed to hear that the Canadian dollar is currently (and has been for approaching a year n
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Theoretical (or not) situation:
1/ You run a (completely free) online message forum which is primarily frequented by people in your local geographic area.
2/ You offer, upon request, to setup private
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A friend made a
blog entry recently discussing the ever favorite (but fruitless) phenomenon of fuel boycotts. D
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Our 10 year old cat (”TC”) that
fell victim to the tainted Menu Foods debacle last April (and then made a
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Our planning for our trip this summer continues and the budget is pretty much finalized at $6000 - 50% of this constitutes our fuel budget which at one point was obscenely excessive, but is now lookin
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Today at midnight my promotional unlimited data plan that I’ve been using with my iPhone expires. Since the iPhone isn’t an official handset supported in Canada, those of us who own unlo
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One thing I consistently notice when traveling in the USA is that plenty of people have branded Mastercard or Visa cards which are actually tied to their regular bank account, instead of acting like a
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A few months ago it looked like the face of mobile data in Canada was finally beginning to change - the media attention that the iPhone garnered both here and south of the border finally woke up Canad
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You find
this Wikipedia article on the bandwidth capacities of various devices extremely interesting.
I just stumbled across it thi
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Our one month western trip this summer is effectively now confirmed - our vacation schedules have aligned perfectly, the funds are set aside in the bank, and we’re getting increasingly excited w
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As I mentioned in my last post, I started a new online forum that is growing rapidly. Most of our new membership is migrating from another similar forum that is exponentially larger then us.
The oth
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I’ve used 1&1 for all my hosting needs for quite a long while now and have been extremely pleased with their service.
However, on at least one of my sites I have run up against the 100 meg l
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I was quite excited when OSX Leopard came out since one of the major features I was looking forward to was the Parental Control options.
Since we have two children who are now at the age where compute
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Our planned vacation to the west coast this summer is still on the books.
Unfortunately the cost of fuel (especially diesel) continues to reach record highs. When we originally envisioned this trip l
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…my neighborhood was normal.
It had people that actually came out of their houses and socialized, well manicured lawns, and sidewalks. It even had a nifty street that ran down between all the h
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It’s time for a bit of a vent.
I’m officially sick and tired of winter. The last few snowstorms that have dumped upwards of 10 to 15 centimeters each (with a mix of freezing rain on top)
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As we continue to plan for our vacation this summer we are starting to seek campsites for some of our guaranteed destinations. At this point, essential spots to make reservations for includes Vancouv
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With an increasing number of HD channels being offered by our satellite TV provider, a number of them are direct feeds of US networks.
Typically Canadian satellite (and cable) TV providers will replac
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Although I’ve been quite happy with my current choice of web browsers,
Camino, I ran into a post on Digg a few nights ago that contained a long comment th
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Most hilarious comment I’ve read in months on Slashdot, today on the
topic of perpetual motion machines:
Connect the co
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With all of the interest in the blogosphere regarding the airplane on a conveyor belt myth (recently brought to the forefront again by the Mythbusters episode) I’ve found lots of blogs that hav
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Back in 2006 I posed the classic “Airplane on a conveyor belt” question:
A plane is standing on a runway that can move (some sort of band
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I called my cellular carrier today (Fido) to see if they would make me an offer that I couldn’t refuse. My contract is up on the 16′th of this month, and although normally that would no b
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Over at Consumerist.com I found an interesting article that decried weather delays in aviation.
The article quoted
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Over the several years we’ve been having trouble with our local postal service, and frankly, I’m sick and tired of it.
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Find it
HERE.
Neat. Click and drag and checkout the entire cockpit.
