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Now that’s Canada!
Some might find me crazy; some might think I’m too privileged for words. Not everyone gets to spend a week in the Calgary-Banff region of Alberta with his family, seeing sites and sights, from mountains so high that even my fear of heights was humbled, to Black Bears to moose, elk aplenty, magpies, muledeer, and Big-Horned sheep. One bear was so close to us that I thought she was asking for a ride. My daughter named her Blaine.
So there we were together, some taking all-day hikes, or visiting bird sanctuaries, while I kept looking up record stores so that I could find what i can’t find anywhere else. And two that I have been looking for over the past few months actually showed up in the stacks of That Old Retro Store in Calgary, except that they we☺️re too scratched up for me to want to pay $5 Canadian for them. I won’t mention them now, because I’ll find them one day, perhaps when we take that Alaskan cruise everyone’s been after.
In full disclosure, other than the all-day hike (that altitude did a number on my stamina and breathing), I participated in all the other activities, including that😭 delicious Dim Sum meal in Chinatown. I’m only crying cause we left food on the table.