Planes Ferries and Automobiles

  Took a quick day trip to Vancouver Island last Wednesday

    It's been quite the month. So far after coming back from the July break I've: Flown to Toronto, drove to Southern Ontario, drove to Montreal, flown back to Abbotsford, took a ferry to Vancouver Island for the day and now have flown all the way to Moncton, New Brunswick on the east coast and now I'm sitting at my cousin's place near Fredricton. Then, tomorrow we're making our way to Quebec and on to Ottawa for this weekend's race at Sand Del Lee. So basically I've done a complete circumnavigation of the country in the past 2 and a half weeks, literally going from standing on the Pacific to standing on the Atlantic in 2 days time.

So, like I said, I've been staying at my cousin's for the past two days and he's a solider here at CFB Gagetown and I had the chance tonight to fire a few of his guns from his private collection. Now I'm not a big gun guy by any means but there's something pretty cool about firing off a few rounds from an assault rifle. All those usual boyhood dreams about being Rambo and playing soldiers probably have a lot to do with it. They sure pack a lot more punch than you'd expect, especially a pistol grip shot gun loaded with slugs. Wow, now that is a kick!

So now that I've got the GI Joe out of my system we're getting ready to head out and do a bit of a road trip tomorrow. We're going to head for rural Quebec and hopefully see some new things. I'll be sure to take a lot of pics.

Here's a few shots from the last couple days.

This is Pandora, one of my cousin's rabbits

My cousin's nice little spread in Scotchtown, New Brunswick. 

 He has beach front access to Grand Lake. The sunsets are awesome here.

My cousin Dave, an infantry soldier, gave me the run down on the correct way to fire the AR-15 assault rifle

Then it was my turn. At least most of my rounds hit the target

Also had the chance to shoot his shotgun, which was loaded with a solid

slug round. That thing had some kick.

The rifle rounds had no problem cutting right through this tree.