This morning, after breakfast, Chris and Rachel headed ashore to do the walk all the way up to the end of the island, Chivers Point. After cleaning up and making sure everything was stowed away perfectly for sailing, Daryl and I headed out as well.  On our way past the inlet, we saw a family of raccoons on the mudflats, messing around in the water ( Read more... )

I woke up at about 8 and Chris and Rachel went ashore while Daryl and I cleaned up the boat and stowed everything away. We usually have large messy breakfasts consisting of bacon and eggs and toast but we decided to just do cereal on this trip and it made clean up SO much easier. We were on our way by about 10 and unfortunately, there were no ( Read more... )

Daryl and I were up early today cause we had to catch the 9:00 ferry. When we got there, it was PACKED!! I think there were at least three busloads of Japanese tourists. We found some seats at the back of the boat but we were really glad that we had our iPods cause it was LOUD! The ferry was of course late leaving cause it was packed to the max! ( Read more... )

Well, it's summer so that must mean I am back posting on my livejournal. Not only is summer the only time that I have time to actually update this thing, I usually do some pretty neat things during July and August too. No big trips this year (Daryl and I are saving $$ to hopefully buy a house soon) but we'll still be doing some fun things closer to ( Read more... )

Day 25: Thursday, August 21, 2008
Lloydminster, SK to Edmonton, AB

(I found out that we were staying on the Saskatchewan side of Lloydminster.)

Wow! Are we ever glad that we decided to find a motel last night. There was a HUGE thunder and lightning storm and it just POURED all night. There were huge puddles everywhere and we could just imagine what ( Read more... )

Day 24: Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Regina, SK to Lloydminster, SK/AB
I woke up at 6:30 with my nose just streaming and of course, I couldn't go back to sleep. Daryl was awake too so we decided that we could book a hotel for Edmonton for tomorrow night, in order to avoid the stress that we went through yesterday. With that out of the way, we figured ( Read more... )

Day 23: Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Fargo, ND to Regina, SK

At 4am, Daryl woke up and decided that we should continue on. We got gas and then headed back on the highway. I had to go to the bathroom so I told Daryl to stop at the next rest stop. It was about an hour away so we stopped at about 5. Daryl was so exhausted (and I couldn't wake up) so we ( Read more... )

Day 22, Monday, August 18, 2008
New Albany, OH to Fargo, ND

We got up at 7 and since the last few times we've been there, Mario and Alex are running late, I figured that I had time to have a quick shower. I guess they were on time today cause when I got out, Daryl informed me that they had had to leave! Oops! We knew we had a long drive ahead of us ( Read more... )

Day 21: Sunday, August 17, 2008
New Albany, OH

Even with the fan on and air conditioning, it was very hot sleeping. Mario and Alex like to keep their heating/cooling costs low so they don't crank the a/c which would have helped but oh well. We got up at about 9 and Alex had gone to Tim Hortons and bought me a coffee which was very nice. By the time I ( Read more... )

Day 20: Saturday, August 16, 2008
Middletown, NY to New Albany, OH

I was awoken at about 4am by the sound of voices outside the window. Since I knew our car was parked out there, I got up and peeked out the window. I saw a bunch of black guys by our car so I told Daryl (who had also woken up) and then went back to the bed. Daryl shot out of bed to ( Read more... )