Maeventure Day Three

Beautiful day driving along the shore of Lake Superior. Did you know the cub who inspired Winnie the Pooh came from White River, ON?

ya do now

Made it to my final destination, my "home away from home" for the summer. I may have forgotten my bookbag in the cab but the driver brought it back for me. Whadda town.

I have decided to call this place the land of the sleeping birch. I'm a long way from the land of the fruiting salmonberry. Better hit the library tomorrow...

Maeventure Day Two

A day late posting. Spent Cinco de Mayo cruising the Prairies and ignored my note to self re: prepurchasing lunch. When you're on a bus for 56 hours, sometimes a walk around downtown is more important.

Temperatures hung around 30ºC for most of our trip through the grasslands. Shrubs are just starting to leaf out, but the grass is already dying.

Got to spend an extra hour in Winnipeg's fancy new bus terminal - and managed to avoid being one of the grumpy passengers. Caught a beautiful prairie sunset on the way in.

Aftermath:

Maeventure Day One

The Canon stayed home, so hopefully you don't mind the cell pics overmuch.

Took the bus from Coquitlam to Calgary. Highlight of the trip was driving through the Rockies for the first time. Saw some elk. Saw some buffleheads. Geeked out over landforms and ecosystem classification. Sat in awe of the majesty.