Archive for the 'Vacation Pictures' Category

Better late than never…

Friday, July 21st, 2006

Here are some shots of our trip to Marilyn’s home town of Outlook, Saskatchewan. It’s about 60 mile SW of Saskatoon on the South Saskatchewan River. We visited her sister in town, and her brother who is still working the home farm. He has no irrigation so he depends heavily on the [...]

I’m in trouble for leaving him out…

Tuesday, May 16th, 2006

I have to say that this leopard was our chaparone and wine advisor throughout the trip and he has taken offense to be left out of the vacation report. So here he is in all his glory. His name is “Longname Nocansay”.

Vacation Summary Part 2/2

Monday, May 15th, 2006

Over three or four days, we visited 22 of the over 70 wineries in the Okanagan area of British Columbia, and one in Washington State called Gold Digger who will be changing their name to Okanagan something or other. Of these wineries there were only 3 we didn’t like very much. One was [...]

Vacation Summary Part 1/2

Friday, May 12th, 2006

Wednesday May 3rd we left Devon and drove to the Okanagan where we camped at Kukuli Campground near Kelwona. We have a lot of experience car camping but we have not done so for a number of years so it was a surprise when we saw the “Mongolian Yurts” available for rent for $60.00 [...]

The One Mile Challenge Has Been Met!

Wednesday, May 10th, 2006

What category to put this into? How about weird and weird? Marilyn and I ran our one mile this morning in Montana between miles 69 and 70 on Highway 2 just beside Loon Lake on the highway. We actually ran much farther than that in each of our “one mile runs” but [...]

Some few pics from the wine tour…

Sunday, May 7th, 2006

Here is part of Gray Monks Winery

Gray Monks again:

Part of Mission Hill’s Wine Cellar

Friday, May 5th, 2006

In Kelowna at the Bear Creek Campground we went for our first run this morning through the Bear Creek Trail which is about 5 kilometers I think but that’s just a guess based on the scale bar of one of those maps they always have at the trail head. It was a great run, [...]