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  • Edmonton Day 4

    So last night we checked into the charming Lobstick Lodge located in downtown Jasper (well, almost anything counts as downtown in Jasper), and went for a nice dinner at a nearby restaurant. A thunderstorm hit while we were eating, and even produced a couple of short power outages. Then it was run-to-the-car time and back…

  • Edmonton Day 3

    Got Tim Horton’s, put on Metric’s “Fantasies” and hit the highway. Road trip!! We headed South from Edmonton and passed through Leduc, Ponoka, Lacombe, Bentley, Rocky Mountain House, Horburg, Harlech, Nordegg, the Kootenay Plains, the Saskatchewan River Crossing en route to the Columbia Icefields. The landscape is filled with a lot of canola at this…

  • Edmonton Day 2

    Yesterday it was time to check out the U of A North Campus. Built just after 1900, many of the original buildings have since been rebuilt, but a few original ones remain. This is a 25-year old temporary wall, originally intended to be part of a new structure that never received funding. So, it got…