September 30 - October 4

4520 km across Canada

saying Goodbye to Clearwater...

Es muss das Herz bei jedem Lebensrufe
Bereit zum Abschied sein und Neubeginne,
Um sich in Tapferkeit und ohne Trauern
In andre, neue Bindungen zu geben.
Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne,
Der uns beschuetzt und der uns hilft, zu leben.

The heart must be, at each new call for leaving,
prepared to part and start without the tragic,
without the grief - with courage to endeavor
a novel bond, a disparate connection:
for each beginning bears a special magic
that nurtures living and bestows protection.
(Hesse)

Or - in the words of an unknown
contemporary truck-art-poet in Edmonton, Alberta:

Bye-bye mountains...


A lot of "largest" somethings across the country.
Here, Heather lifting the world largest Easter egg in Vegreville.
Go figure.


Pretty cool - the Prairies...



Amazing scenery around the great lakes... (Lake Superior)


We did NOT get into scrapping...


...nor did we find Jesus.


We did find Ottawa, six days later...


and crossed another provincial border into Quebec and to my new home in Chelsea on the Gatineau River...