SEATTLE!

It's been a long day... but after a 4 hour flight, we arrived in Seattle this morning, and had an absolutely great time at the Pike Place Fish Market, which is really "so much more" than just a fish market. It's a farmers market, a seafood market, an incredible buzz there today with the "Blue Angels" practicing overhead.

Be looking for some video from here, posted by Monday morning.

My reports, will air on News Channel 3 Daybreak and the "First at 4" and 4:30 shows as well.

Off to bed, up early for our trip to Victoria....

The adventure begins!

Time to get packing

The plane is out early tomorrow on the way to Seattle as we begin our adventure to the NW.

First by plane, then motor coach, then ferry, train and fly back out from Calgary.

I can't wait to start shooting some video, posting it here, and also putting together my reports that you will see on Daybreak, First at 4 and 4:30 starting Monday.

It's going to be a lot of fun... hope you can check back often!

Hot, in the Northwest?

Yep, you may have heard, "record heat" across SW Canada. Here's the forecast for some of the cities we're going to be travelling to in the next few days:

Seattle: Sat/Sun August 1/2

Victoria: Sun/Mon/Tue Aug 2/3/4

Vancouver: Tue/Wed Aug 4/5

Kamloops, BC Wed/Thur Aug 5/6 *** REALLY HOT HERE *****

Lake Louise/Calgary
Thur/Fri/Sat Aug 6/7/8 *** LOOKING WET ***

Calgary Sun/Mon Aug 9/10

First few days offer up sunshine, highs 80-85. Kamloops appears to be the only "trouble spot" as the heat will be breaking as we arrive.

Staying cool...

One place I'm really looking forward to next week, is being on a glacier.

May not sound like much, but this is mega-cool, especially since parts of the northwest are currently dealing with all time record heat!


You take one of these little buggies out to the ice, play around for a while... get your "chill on" and then bring it home.

A walk in the park

I'd never heard of Butchart Gardens until this trip. It looks beautiful and I can wait to see it, and smell it, in person!

You can see more pictures at their website.

Next week at this time, we'll be enjoying the sites!

You will be able to keep up with my "video diary" and clips that will be seen on WREG News Channel 3.

Less than a week to go

Next week at this time our group from Memphis will be in Victoria, BC checking out the sites and sounds of the Parliment area. Time for a "Baggage Check" of my own to make sure everything is ready to go!