my sweat/sweet shirt

don't you just love it!?! i bought it in Edmonton with Twyla and Jeremy. it's a vintage army poster print.

me at home in victoria 

my kitty cat Hazelle 

recovering

so my dentist in Victoria says I don't need a root canal. she thinks my filling wasn't shaved down enough and i was putting too much pressure on my tooth when i was eating. she thought the merrit dentist was just trying to get more moula or was inexperienced. i'm still in pain but it's going away slowly. no t-3s today.

other BC ferry passing by 

mountains in jasper 

pic from ferry 

no enlightenment for me!

due to an overwhelming pain in my mouth, stemming from a new filing i just had done 2 weeks ago, i made an emergency visit in Merrit to a local dentist. as i suspected, my root was infected and required antibiotics and to my horror i learned that my nerves were dying in that molar and i had two options...da da dum...pull the tooth out or get a root canal ASAP. since there was no way i was going to spend 10 days on pain killers trying to meditate, i drove to Vancouver and caught the 7 pm ferry home, thus surprising my mother and getting the rest i needed. my appointment is tomorrow.....ahh. i'll make do with tylenol 3s until then.

Jasper to Kamloops

jasper is the nicest city i have been to yet. i could live in there. the people are nice and the scenery is specatular. the city has a 360 degree panoramic view of mountains.

i got there in the early afternoon and went for a hike around Milgne Canyon. it was beautiful. then i went to the info centre and found a place to stay. it was in a basement suite of a house and it was the nicest place i've stayed at by far. so comfortable and cozy. unfortunately i'm getting sick and i passed out early last night and i'll probably do the same today.

i've arrived in Kamloops and haven't figured out where i'm going to stay the night yet. Tomorrow i will be arriving at the meditation retreat in Merrit and will be cut off from the world for 10 days.

Edmonton

well it's good to have finally made it to Edmonton Alberta. i'm staying at my friends from highschool Twyla and Jeremy's apartment. it's nice to be back somewhere familiar.

the drive from Winnipeg to Saskatoon was so freakin long. i stayed in a motel which would have been fine except 3 or 4 truck loads of highschool kids arrived after I checked in. man there was no peace and quiet! lots of knocking, banging and running around in the halls. i didn't do anything in Saskatoon but i would have liked to check the city out. It looked fairly nice. i was just too wiped.

i got into Edmonton around 2:30 which was good. I'll be here until Monday morning at which point i'm going to drive to Jasper. I've always wanted to stay there. If I have time I may go to Banff as well. Twyla and Jeremy say that there is still skiing. That would be very cool. My skis are in my car! along with the rest of my wordly possessions.

not sure what we're up to today. i need to do some laundry and buy film for my camera. My digital camera has started malfunctioning. not sure what's wrong with it. will be sending that thing back to the manufacturer. Dan or Dad, I may be stealing one of your cameras for my travels if mines not fixed before i leave Victoria! ;)

i need some new music. I told Twyla we're hitting a cd store today. we'll probably walk their chihuahua, Beth. she's starting to like me now. we took her to the park yesterday and she looked like a little rabbit running all over the place. when i arrived she bit me on the calf! that was frightening but it didn't hurt at all.

ok nuff for now!