Apr 13, 2013 - Spring Maintenance Feb 2013

This spring the CT need some maintenance done to keep it running. It would only start if I used the emergency booster. That was hard to operate the emergency booster and drive at the same time. When I removed the batteries the starting battery was dated 04 / 05 and the accessory battery was dated 11 / 07. When tested, the starting battery was dead... The accessory battery showed go to go. I decided to replace both batteries. The starting battery was replaced by a regular acid battery and the accessory battery was replace by a marine deep...

Dec 22, 2012 - Winter Wedding in Winnipeg

Having a wedding in -15 C weather requires innovation (a warm pants under my wedding dress) We had a wedding dinner in a Chinese restaurant on Pembina highway. Thank you to all dear friends in Winnipeg for making the dinner party so much fun! Winnipeg Rocks! Nick and Lei

Oct 12, 2012 - Winnipeg, Manitoba

Winnipeg, MB – 10/12 We arrived at the Red River Exhibition Park around 3:00. We had a quick dinner and off to Tim Horton’s Donut Shop for coffee, desert and Internet access where we spent 3 ½ hours journaling. City Tour - 10/13 Today we took a guided bus tour of the city of Winnipeg. Our guide, Marianne, gave us a very informative history of the city. We visited the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden in Assiniboine Park, St. Boniface Cathedral, the Manitoba Legislative Building and the Manitoba Museum. Leo Mol Sculpture Garden Combining artistic...

Sep 28, 2012 - Sh#t Happens!

Well, you just never know what’s going to happen. Yesterday Sue, as good a driver as I know, got herself into a pretty nasty traffic accident. The Escape broadsided a van at an intersection just north of the campground. She had left the See Ya to go into Ile de Chenes to get a haircut. After only a few minutes a neighbor drove up in his pick up and told me that there had been an accident but that Sue appeared to be OK. I rode with him to the intersection and was stunned to see the condition of the Escape. There was only one person in the...

Sep 26, 2012 - Winnipeg

Yesterday we drove a couple hundred miles on route 16 from Saskatoon to Yorkton where we spent the night in the Yorkton City Campground. It was a decent, if older, campground. Today we drove another three hundred miles east to a small town called Ile des Chenes just south of Winnipeg. We are now in the central time zone. It was not a scenic trip but it did have its interesting aspects. Between Saskatoon and Yorkton we passed a large body of water that signs indicated was Quill Lakes. It turned out that this was a wetland that Saskatchewan...

Sep 20, 2012 - Winnipeg, Manitoba

So, we were up at 5 am, caught our shuttle to the Mesa airport, and boarded our $43 flight back to Grand Forks, without incident. What really became a problem, was our daughter now couldn't come to Grand Forks to pick us up, and we had to research another way to get back. We called every car rental in GF, and only one would allow a drop-off in the Peg. The only problem was, they charged so much for the 2 1/2 hour trip, that we probably could have bought a beat up old vehicle for way less. Next option...the bus. Did you know there was no bus...

Aug 25, 2012 - Electrical Maintenance 2

This afternoon was a busy time for me.... I began by going to the re-store. I spent about an hour just brozsing over all the items they have for sale. In the electrical department I came across two 120 volt ceiling lights for $5.00 each. I could use these lights to replace the two 4' fluorescent lights I currently have. I started to install the 120 volt electrical wiring on the driver's side of Camper Tank. There were a few problems along the way, which caused me to revamp a few of my ideals. I had to make a seperate trip to Rona to...

Aug 22, 2012 - The Forks

Winnipeg, MB. The Forks is a historic site, meeting place and green space in downtown Winnipeg at the confluence of the Red River and Assiniboine River. The Forks now contains public space recreation, an interpretive park, revitalized historic and new buildings containing shops and restaurants, as well as a skateboard park and historic port. There are over four million visitors each year and we added to the count. We took the Splash Dash Guided River Tour where we learned about Winnipeg and the rivers. The rivers flood every year and we saw...

Aug 21, 2012 - Missing - 1 owl

Winnipeg, MB. We spent the entire day in 378 acre Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg. The park is in the middle of the city along the Assiniboine River. First we got lost while trying to find it – way lost! We really miss being able to use the GPS on our phone. Anyway, we prevailed and finally located the Assiniboine Park Zoo. We looked it all over and especially enjoyed the antics of some young Canadian Lynx kittens. Many of the animals are common to most zoos but we did see a couple of white American Bison, some Muskox, and some Reindeer. Then...

Aug 20, 2012 - Creepy Crawlie

Winnipeg, MB. Canada has nice signs posted along TransCanada Hwy 1 that list attractions. We have followed up on a couple and are beginning to realize that Canada does not use the same standards as does the U.S. Actually, the directions to get there should have tipped us off: “12 miles east on PR 457 to the end of the road, 1 mile south on Wagglesprings Road (gravel) to Thompson Road.” This got us to somebody’s rundown, messy farm yard which turned out to be we were going – Westman Reptile Garden. Westman Reptile Gardens has been recognized...

Jul 30, 2012 - Back to Winnipeg

We got up early and hit the road by 6:30 am. It was a little chilly when we started out (+14 C), as we rode through the North Dakota farmland. We stopped in Fargo and did a little bit of last minute shopping, before heading for the border. We arrived in Winnipeg at 3:30 pm, just in time to have a BBQ at Chad's house. We parked the bikes for a week or so, as we had some appointments before heading out into the States.

Jul 29, 2012 - Electrical Maintenance

On Saturday, 28 Jul 2012 I went to Rona on Ellice and Sargent in Winnipeg to look at the prices of a garage electrical boxes to wire in to the Camper Tank. I asked one Rona's associate for directions on where to locate them. After locating them and starting to look over a few.... By now I was completely confused at how many varieties there were. After about 15 minutes that same associate came over to me to see if I found what I was looking for. When I explained to him what I was trying to do... he said none of these electrical panels are...