My grandson, Bryce, age 5, would love it here. We are in Dinosaur Provincial Park on the Red Deer River in Alberta Canada. There are lots of really old fossils here, and now I don’t have to feel so old. We tromped around the hills of these “bad lands” but we didn’t discover any new dinosaur bones. Continue reading Looking for Old Fossils:
Category Archives: Travels
When It’s Springtime In the Rockies:
It is raining every day Well we did manage to sneak in a 10 km walk between rain showers today in Lake Louise.
Today we experienced one of life’s ironies. As we exited Trans Canada highway number 1 in Lake Louise we anticipated driving to the lake itself. We came to a four way intersection and found a billboard sized sign the warned that big rigs wouldn’t like the extreme alpine road conditions ahead. Continue reading When It’s Springtime In the Rockies:
North of the Border:
Our border crossing was a total anti-climax to all of the dire predictions people like to shower on us. We did take the precaution of registering the serial numbers of all our tools, computers and cameras with the US Customs. Continue reading North of the Border:
Solving Puzzles:
One of the challenges that I took up several years ago was studying the genealogy of my family. The combined ancestor trees of Judy and I sprawl out in four directions. Continue reading Solving Puzzles:
Learning New Tricks:
Back in a previous life Judy and I used to be trout fisher-persons. This is like when we were first married. In our youth we were taught to fish the cold water lakes of north eastern Washington State by our parents. Continue reading Learning New Tricks: