Moving again

My roommates mom has gotten sick and they need the room I am in.
So I am looking for a new place to live.Now that i have a reliable job I am looking for an apartment. So it may take a little longer to get settled in.
More news laterz.

Moncton Treego

I found the treego quite by accident while exploring Centennial park in Moncton. People tell me there is much more to see in the park. I will keep you up to date on my further adventures in the park.
From the moncton treego website.
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What Is TreeGO?


Monkey Swing, Monkey Play, Monkey in the Trees all Day...

Fun, freedom and personal reward are what TreeGO is all about. These aerial adventure courses offer a diverse and exciting experience within the comfort of knowing you're ...attached to continuous safety cables (the red ones in all of our pictures). No matter what your age or fitness level, our courses are designed for your pleasure in a unique outdoor environment.

TreeGO's self-managed courses for children, teens and adults allow you to move through a series of surprising and progressively challenging tree to tree activities. With multiple activities in a course, you get to decide how far and how fast to exercise your agility, endurance and confidence.

In the highest courses, you can choose to ascend up to 70 feet up in the trees, discovering new levels of focus and physical skill. Share this thrilling experience with friends or family and be rewarded with a sense of well-being and great memories.
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Random pictures of people in the trees.
 

Hope you enjoyed them. :-)

Moncton Tidal Bore

Some pictures of the tidal bore. The Tidal Bore is much like the Reversing Rivers Rapids in Saint John, but is on the Petitcodiac River. Years ago the Tidal Bore was a very impressive high wall of water that surged in through the narrow river opening. You could see the wave pushing ...the river to reverse. However, a causeway built across the river has blocked the bore, and usually the river-wide wave is only a few inches high! The river still reverses, but it is not very dramatic. Around the equinox, when the tides are especially high, the moving wave is much more visible. Some tourists who expect more have referred to it as the Tidal Boring!

What is impressive is that the river rises the empty river bed to completly full in  few short hours.

During low tide

During low tide

River at %50

River at %50 the tide is still pushing the river back

On the right are the one way storm drains. The river is at %50 but it has not fill this outlet.

Storm drain outlet. River is at %50

Storm drain outlet. River at %90

Storm drain outlet. River at %90

River at %90

More pictures please see archives for sept20/09

Sept 20/09 A good first week.

I've had a good first week in moncton. Adding some pictures from my trip to moncton from Montreal. As well as pictures of some sights in moncton.

St Foy, Quebec and the St Lawrence river

The rolling countryside in Quebec

The rolling countryside Quebec

St Lawrence river and mountains in the background

Riviere du Loup, Quebec

Riviere Du Loup, Quebec

Footbridge/Gazebo in Edmundston, NB

Countryside New Brunswick

Countryside New Brunswick

Please also see Moncton Tidal Bore post and Moncton Treego post for more pictures

My first day in Moncton

I was up by 06:30am. Went looking for Timmies but couldn't find it. So I settled for a coffee at at a conveniece store. I went to Universal Staffing and start work Monday.
It's been great my roommates are friendly and relaxed. Later today I will go for a walkabout Moncton.
What a ride? It has been a whirlwind two weeks. Now to get back to working for a living.

Safe and Sound in Moncton

Sept 10/09
Leaving Quebec and into New Brunswick on a beautiful sunny day. Left Montreal at 6am arrived in St Foy at 9am. Then 10 minutes later onto Riviere du Loup. Arrived in Riviere Du Loup 11 am. 15min later onto New Brunswick. I was so upset while I was checking google maps for the NB border we went past the "Welcome to New Brunswick" sign. I arrived in Moncton at 8pm. I was safe and sound with Tammy and Wilfred (my roommates) by 08:30pm.
Sept09/09
I have had a good visit with my brother and his family. Church and a tour of chateauguay on sunday. A guided tour of Ft Lennox and a drive through the countryside of the south shore on Monday. On Tuesday a trip to Mont Royal and Schwartz's for their ...famous Montreal smoked meat sandwich. Golfing with my bro today and I leave tommorrow.

On my Way

I leave Red Deer, ab at 08:15pm. My flight leaves Calgary at 01:05am Sept 6th. I arrive in Montreal, PQ at 07:05am.

It almost surreal and I am getting both nervous and excited. When I wake up tomorrow I will be 3/4 of the way across the country. It will take a few days to get used to the fact I will no longer be in Red Deer, AB.

As Always
Have Fun Stay Safe
Jim

I'm moving to Moncton.
Woohoo! I have a place to live. I am renting a room from a couple i can relate to. She likes to talk and he appears to be pretty quiet. I get the best of both worlds. :-)

It has been a happy whirlwind couple of weeks. Ask me about my daughter surprising me by travelling from ontario for a visit.
My trip took two years of planning but Two weeks to achieve. It's all good ... but I am sad there are so many I would like to say goodbye to, even so it appears they are all happy for me too.

I was pleasantly surprised tonight that my daughter and grand daughter plan to attend my good bye hotdog cook out. I have made plans for Sept 5th @12pm (noon to 2pm) for friends and family I am leaving behind I was worried I might be alone but very proud i get to shoe off my daughter and grand daughter to any and all friends who plan to attend.

What more can a man ask for than good friends that wish him well. I'm glad I have good friends. And I am glad there is facebook.
Maybe this time i won't lose touch with anyone. LOL and i've been told i had better not. :-)
I won't lose touch because good people are hard enough to find in this world I would hate to lose even one of you :-)

As always
have fun stay safe
OKOK just have fun
Jim

Counting Days not months now

I purchased my ticket for Montreal. I leave Red Deer Sept 5. I will travel to Calgary catch my flight leaving at 01:05am Sept 6/09. I will visit my brother in montreal and take the train Sept 09/09 to moncton arriving at 11:05am Sept 10/09. I thought the train trip would be a nice way to see some of the land on my way to Moncton, AB.

I am getting a little scared but I know this will be a good move for me. Right now I worry more about finding a place to stay than getting a job. So far everything else has fallen into place, I know this will too.

Monton Here I come

Aug 27/09 I am so stoked my dream of Moncton, NB just took ten steps forward but i'm sad that i may not have time to see everyone I want to before i leave. DAMN IT! Oh well it appears they are happy for me too and that means a lot. :-) Thank God for facebook at least people aren't asking what happened to Jim. Jim is going to a place to call home and is stoked about it.

I am still a little worried that i didn't grow up there and that i will be an outsider but my eastcoast friends tell me i will fit right in. The east coast friends that are still in alberta have been very encouraging to the point they wish they were going as well but can't because of girlfriends and/or mortgages. I told one friend he needs to take his girlfriend back home for a week she will never want to leave.

My date for my flight is waiting on my brother in Montreal. This trip has been two years in the planning but two weeks in fruition. So to others it appears to be all of the sudden. I will make point of coming back to see all those who meant something in my life. I don't when or where but i will come back and i will come back to make sure they know they have and will always be important to me.
Good luck to all of you
May the fates always be as kind to you as they have been to me today.

My next post will be after i complete my airfare purchase.

So the plan. I have two.
One
Fly to Montreal visit my brother over the long weekend. then take CN rail the ocean line to moncton.
Two
Fly directly to moncton. and get my ass working ASAP.