July 6th – Day Eleven
Tuesday we packed up and headed back to Peggy’s Cove, stopping off at the SwissAir Flight 111 memorial. We had followed the crash and had recently seen a documentary on…
July 5th – Day Ten
Monday July 5th we headed down the highway to Halifax. Just across the border into Nova Scotia we ran into this Honey Bee sign. Interesting as colony collapse is widespread…
July 4th – Day Nine
Sunday July 9th was the Annual General Meeting of the RASC and a very short 2nd National Council meeting. In the afternoon there were more talks by David Levy and…
July 3rd – Day Eight
Saturday July 3rd was the real start to the conference- paper sessions. There were two parallel streams in the morning, which means we each missed half of the talks. A…
July 2nd – Day Seven
Friday July 2nd saw us hit the tourbus for a trip to the Hopewell Rocks at low tide. It was fun walking the wet/damp ocean floor bottom wondering just how…
July 1st – Day Six
Thursday July 1st was Canada Day, although you wouldn’t really know it. It was also National Council Meeting day. It went pretty quick and before you know it, it was…
June 30th – Day Five
Wednesday June 30th we were aiming just to drive back into New Brunswick, making stops in Truro and other small spots, and get to the University by nightfall. We made…
June 29th – Day Four
Tuesday June 29th. The day of the Cabot Trail. Before this holiday I wasn’t even sure where the Cabot trail was in Nova Scotia. I do now! It was raining,…
June 28th – Day Three
Day Three – Monday It’s not quite tourist season around here yet… it seems to start on July 1st. But we took it easy in the morning, snapped the obligatory…
June 27th – Day Two
Day two started cold… did we mention that? 3 degrees C to be exact. We fired up the camp stove and made some hot coffee, packed up, hit the road…
June 26th- Day One
Day 1 of the 2 week journey to the East Coast of Canada. The vehicle was packed the night before and at 5am Saturday morning we hit the road. After…
Peterborough Garden Show
We hooked up with a bus trip from Napanee to the Peterborough Garden Show last Saturday (April 10th) and all in all had a good time. THe show was held…
king tut exhibit
You may have heard of the King Tut exhibit at the AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) in Toronto. We went to see it last week, early on a Friday morning…
Mexico Day 7
This is it! Our last day! Hmmm.. have to do something special… let’s go down to the beach at sunrise and drink some tequila! So Hank, Kim and I trundled…
Mexico Day 6
Our last full day at the resort saw us down at the beach .. we made a brief siting of the newlyweds getting their feet wet as well. Where did…