the planes seem never to stop arriving and departing from YYC-Calgary International Airport. Often it is possible to see either two aircraft on landing approach side by side on parallel runways. They appear usually from the North and depart to the South in both cases they appear and isappear over the horizon quickly. To the North of Calgary lies two communities they being Balzac and Airdrie. The road North is Deerfoot and into Hwy 2, approaching Balzac on the ...

The circle continues. Many years ago I enjoyed road and camping trips from Calgary East often to Brandon Manitoba or even as far as Peace Gardens on the US/Canadian border and also into Minnasota where the mosquito reined supreme. These trips were with my host family and included their young son. Well that son is now a grown man married and has a son of his own so it was a full circle to be asked to go camping with his family. The familiar aspects were a cam...

Spruce Meadows is a well known Equestrian park located to the South West of Calgary since 1976 built by the Southern Family who still control the facility. Despite being set up as a world class Equestrian Facility it will venture into football (soccer) as Spruce Meadows Sports & Entertainment own the Canadian Premier League and Calvalry FC has SM as its home base in a purpose built modular stadium seating 5000 from 2019. The Football season will run from Oc...

The rain came and persisited. The Greyhound buses shrunk. The planes were grounded. Some were dressed in raincoats. Others forgot them but that was a minor consideration as they saw The show must go on and no the fat lady had not sung. What show! No not my usual Calgary Exhibition & Stampede I missed it while in Scotland at The Royal Military Tattoo. This show was a 50th Anniversary labor Day Parade in Cochrane in Alberta Canada. Cochrane will soon be...

With last weeks sucess in bear hunting it was to be a repeat today in a different part of the Rockies in Canada. The chosen location was Kananaskis country to the West of Clagary. It was after all Labor Day long weekend, the Sun was out and this area provides some of the best motorcycle riding in Alberta. The motorcycles were out in full force mainly metric cruisers in groups of 3-4 with the odd sportsbike interspersed with the adventure bikes. Regardless of ...