Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Mark was up before the 6:15 alarm again, ready to go. I passed on my walk around the property and bundled up to greet a chilly morning. We set out to an area called the XFiles again. The XFiles being 45-60 minutes away, I had time to contemplate why the water […]
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Sunday, July 14, 2024. We were up at 5:30 and checked out in minutes. For breakfast, we ate a couple of pastries we’d gotten yesterday at the grocery store, drank some Gatorade/water and packed up. Mark used the in-room Kuerig to make a cup of coffee. We met Yvonne–another Plummer’s Lodge employee–in the lobby and she checked
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Saturday, August 5, 2023. Fort McMurray, Alberta to Cree Lake Lodge, Saskatchewan. We were up early and at the Fort McMurray Aviation hangar by 7:30 a.m. as instructed. Nobody else was there, though, so we hung out and took photos. Shortly after 7:30, a guy named Wade appeared and asked us to bring our luggage
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There were basically two ways for us to get from the Lansing area in Michigan to Fort McMurray, Alberta in August 2023: drive to Detroit and fly to Fort McMurray, or drive from the Lansing area to Fort McMurray. Mark and I did a quick comparison of costs and determined that with four people in
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After two days of driving, we returned home to get our pups, Snickers and Winston, from their favorite play place–Nana ‘N Paws in Grand Ledge. On the drive home from Nana ‘N Paws, the pups sang a swan song we’d never heard before. Listen to this video and you’ll hear what I mean. We were
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