Monthly Archives: July 2011

Air Sports Adventures’ Meet the Buffalo Adventure Flight

July 31, 2011 – Penticton Getting Ready All right, on short notice, not everyone would be as excited as Ed and I are about the opportunity to fly our plane from Penticton BC to Yellowknife NWT. Most people would need a longer time to plan for it. But we decided within one week to go [...]

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Summer – Slow and Easy

July 22 – 30, 2011 “Up the Mountain” Penticton One day sitting on the back porch sipping my morning latte, I realized with some surprise that I was exhausted – a deep bone-weary exhaustion that only time and rest can heal. There was only one thing for it: I decided to slow down. The next [...]

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Okanagan Sunset

July 18, 2011 – Penticton What more to say?

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Living History

July 12, 2011 – Fort Selkirk Designation It turned out Ed and I did not fly our Cessna Cardinal to the Yukon in mid-July. There was a worrisome electrical issue and the parts he ordered to correct it did not arrive on time. So I flew with WestJet and Air North to Whitehorse alone. It [...]

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Family Photos

July 10, 2011 – En route Penticton to Whitehorse Sitting in YVR (Vancouver) airport with a few hours between flights gives me time to look over a few photos from June that I never got around to loading on my blog. Here are the photos, courtesy of Deb Ryan, Marketing Manager and all-round totally committed second-in-command [...]

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Recovery Accomplished – Now It’s on to Our Next Adventure

Penticton – July 7, 2011   There is no need to talk more about the end of June – it was all about completing the renos and getting back to normal: unpacking boxes, hanging photos back on the walls, vacuuming dust. The thing is – it was WORTH IT! Our house looks like new and [...]

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June Update – What Happened???

Penticton – July 7, 2011 The final week of June was as opposite from the rest of the month as is imaginable. Well – yes, it can always be worse, but honestly, it was BAD. It was a time of upset and upheaval since the end of our ferry ride on June 15 until the [...]

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