Travel
Photos
I went to Maui with my university buddy Dave in November '94. We stayed for two weeks then stopped in LA to see Marcel and Diane for
a week on the way back (sick of traveling and taking pictures by then so there's no photos of LA). During the Maui weeks we snorkeled, scuba dived, kayaked, drove around the island, biked down a volcano, went on a couple of catamaran day trips, and went to a luha. By the end we were broke and Dave was severely sick of having to stop the car
for me to take pictures! (I'm glad I did, 'cause it's so nice to look at them and
wish I was there instead of here.)
I went to Jasper Park in July/August of '98, camping with my friend Dana and my pooch, Meika. We stayed for three nights and saw a number of elk in the camp ground and had two more bears than we would have liked, pass through our camp site! I think next time I would rather rent a camper instead of a tent. It's a good think Meika didn't see/hear the bears, better yet, they didn't See/hear her!
I went to Suriname, South America for
three weeks (work) in December of '98. We stopped in Curacao on the way down, just for one night. It was nice to stop there on the way down, since it is a total of 23 hours travelling to get to Suriname. We stayed the first night in Miami, but it was late at night and didn't have time to see anything. Curacao was good - we arrived early in the day and had tons of time to go shopping and take pictures. Didn't get too much time to sight see in Suriname. Most of the time was work, but we did get to go into the city a couple of times. I thought Calgary traffic was a nightmare (well it is), but its nothing compared to the trauma of driving down there (not to mention adjusting to the wrong side of the road too).
I took a quick trip to Grail Springs Spa (near Bancroft Ontario) in Aug 2002, stopping for a 12hr layover in Quebec City on the way home. The spa was amazing - very relaxing and beautiful area; QC was hot and sunny so I got burnt to a crisp site seeing the old city all day. It was extremely hard to go home after that trip, leaving civilization to go back to the "uncivilized middle of nothing" where summer is almost over by the end of August and winter could start anyday. >
