Little known fact: 26 hours of driving straight is really hard on the ass.  Seriously, I almost collapsed. After we got home and unloaded the car, my equilibrium was way off.  That being said, the trip was a balance of family, friends, fun and discovery (couldn’t think of another “f-word”) and equal amounts of pain.    Read More …

There is one reason only to see Edmonton.  Well, at least that was all we could figure out because on the way there, the mountains disappear, the horizon gets flat, the miles of canola fields reappear and the highlight of the drive is Gasoline Alley, Red Deer (apparently this is such a fixture for tourists   Read More …