And the Adventure Begins . . .

It’s the evening before I leave for two months on a Canadian adventure.  I’m hanging out at home with a few close friends, eating pizza, drinking wine, and enjoying good company.  I’ll miss these impromptu gatherings that happen frequently in my neighborhood of Historic Oakwood.

Spending the last evening before leaving with my Oakwood  "buds"

I’m Ruth Sappie and I live in Raleigh, North Carolina.  I’m driving to Banff in Alberta, Canada to volunteer for a month in Banff National Park as a park ranger assistant.  Tomorrow my sister Bunny and I leave on a 3,000 mile, 40-hour road trip.  It will take us 5 or 6 days to get to Canmore, Alberta, a small town about 20 minutes away from the park.  We’ll spend three days sightseeing in the Canadian Rockies and then she’ll fly home out of Calgary.  I’ll stay in the park for the next four weeks.  I don’t know what I’ll be doing yet, but in one correspondence, interacting with the public, clearing trails, and amphibian monitoring (I hope that means frogs) are listed as likely assignments.