Family trip to drive up Yonge Street (map is wrong, we took Hwy 11 all the way), with two kids, my wife and a 60lb Catahoula Leopard Dog. We decided to take a page out of Elton Brown's Feasting on Asphalt by eating only at local restaurants. You haven't tasted Guatemalan food until you've eaten it in Kapuskasing. You haven't seen joy, like watching your children "swim" with a polar bear in Cochrane. I will never have as much fun or be so tired as when I drove from Kap to Thunder Bay, through the Great Emptiness between Hearst and Longlac.

Private Joseph J. Foulkes, 14th Batt. The King’s Liverpool Regiment.
Lost June 24th 1917. Memorial cross in Doiran Military cementary, North Greece.

Peter Mirams, lost when his ship was sunk defending Hongkong, 1941.

Warrant Officer Class 2 George Kitchener Jarvis and the crew of 407 Sqdn., Royal Canadian Air Force. Lost March 24th, 1944.

In Flanders Fields the poppies grow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch, be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

Lt. Col. John McCrae.

Lest We Forget.

Loveliest drive: Through a forest, on #4 Prince Edward County before Doolittle Lane, coming into Sophiaburgh from Picton.

Most exciting drive: On Hill Top Road and Army Reserve Road, from South Bay to see the Point Petre Lighthouse. Sign said not for Passenger Vehicles, and it certainly wasn’t but we took it anyways. The pleasant we passed was certainly surprised to see us drive past.

Biggest disappointment: the Point Petre Lighthouse. The original one was torn down in the 70s. My daughter thought we could visit, but I am afraid we couldn’t.

Best surprise: the old barracks at the Picton Airport, where we saw gliders.
Best local museum: Mariners’ Memorial Museum/Fort Kente in South Bay.

Best little town/tourist trap we drove straight through: Bloomsfield

Best tourist trap we stopped at: Lake on the Mountain

Best swimming: Outlet Beach, Sandbanks Provincial Park, even if it was overcast and cool. Some very cool sand sculptures there too.

Then, on my doorstep this morning arrived the Christmas Wish Book catalogue. Instead of biking, or skateboarding, or asking to go to the local splash pad, my children and I sat on the bottom stair and started to think about Christmas. With all the toy recalls I wonder what the holidays will be like this year? And I wonder if I should start untangling those Christmas lights?

“I thought about this today. Here’s what you get with Facebook and their 3rd party apps:

• Email client.
• Status client.
• Groups – which permits 1-to-many messaging, discussion threads, im-like interaction.
• RSS support to import your team’s blogs (Your team isn’t blogging?), wikis, etc
• Calendar / Event app.
• Twitter app.
• Flickr app.
• News feed that tells you what people in your “friends” (your team, in our case) have done differently with their account lately.”

For me, I use Facebook’s Inbox more than my own Outlook. Staff asking me questions about my status line in the morning. In fact, nearly all of my team are on Facebook.