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Welcome to a record of Mary and Aldo's adventures in North and South America!

Friday, August 13, 2010

A real Grizzly Bear on the road to Banff!!


Moraine Lake where we met the marmotte


chance meeting with a marmotte squirrel


Louise Lake


Banff Chateau, natural springs


Sunwapta Falls, stone bridge on 12 August 2010.


Emerald Lake.


Edith Cavell glacier on a walk at dusk.


an encounter with deer.


Maligne Lake freezes to a depth of 3 metres in winter. In summer the water is 4 degrees celsius.


A view from the ferry on Maligne Lake.


Maligne Lake; named by an unhappy priest whose gear was swept away.


Emerald Lake


A walk on the glacier.


Peyto Lake on the way to Jasper; look at that colour on the lake...


Canada, Calgary or Calvary as Aldo called it.


Thursday, August 12, 2010

Haight Ashbury is visited by Aldo.


Mary trying to stop from freezing at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco


Monterey again-beautiful but foggy.


Aldo at Carl Alasko's home in Monterey


Bird life at Yosemite


Yosemite Falls and Aldo enjoying the sun


Evidence of Aldo in Las Vegas!


Hoover Dam on the way ot Las Vegas




Guess who's video taping again?




The Grand Canyon in its sheer size and life.




Mary's visit to Aladdin


..and enjoying the wildside.


Aldo celebrating in Disneyland


What's the situation at hand?




The Sicilian connection