BEST. BURGER. EVER: Chef Dan’s Moose Burger!From Elisse’s moose! 🙂 I truly can’t even Begin to describe HOW good these are! Seared on the outside, rare in the middle… So simple and SO good! IMHO, this TRULY belongs on the list of Great Burgers of the World! Moose courtesy our Foodie Read more…
And now back, again to our road trip back from British Columbia, Canada to West Virginia! When I wrote the blogpost on Alberta, Canada, I neglected one short but Very Important stop: Vulcan, the Official Star Trek City of Canada! While not named for Mr. Spock’s home planet (the town was Read more…
Back to our recent toad trip across the USA & Canada!We drove down from British Columbia to Calgary, and coming into the outskirts of the city we stopped to get gas, and had the Very nice surprise of a really good Vietnamese lunch of pho (Dan) and roast pork with Read more…
And now… back to our Canada Road Trip! We left Prince George, on Highway 16, heading for Jasper, but first we had to stop for pix with Mr. PG the mascot of Prince George, who was:constructed in 1960 as a symbol of the importance of the forest industry to Prince Read more…
Day 8: Moose Packin’… Out As my few intrepid blog readers know, Dan and recently I went moose hunting in British Columbia, Canada, and the preceding post was about me learning to hunt and, finally, getting a moose. J The morning after I got the moose, Joe, our Hunting Guide, whom we’d Read more…
Note: This is a post about moose hunting for meat, and about how I learned to hunt. I did shoot a moose (and am eating a delicious Chef Dan moose burger as I write this), and there are photos below of me and the moose, and the photos I took of Read more…
In Search of Moose Kebabs! Joe, calling moose… Day Two: No Más (No Moose)Up and out by 6:30a.m. in the drizzle, my Hello Kitty Rifle pendant on for luck… but no moose. L At noon, after a fruitless morning of moose pursuit in the rain (which made hunting seem Read more…
Leaving Jasper, Alberta we headed for British Columbia, stopping at Mount Robson for coffee and to enjoy the beautiful view: Doesn’t it look fake? Like a plastic set for a production of “Heidi”? LOL and funny things, too…  We made it to Prince George in the late afternoon- just minutes Read more…
Our first stop in Alberta was Edmonton, where we stayed at the Holiday Inn Express Downtown (on our hotel points :-), and thanks again to our GREAT AAA book, had a truly excellent “foodie” dinner of New Canadian Cuisine just a block away at the elegant Wildflower Restaurant: Peppercorn-Herb-Crusted Bison Tenderloin, with Read more…
On day 6 of our 10 day drive from West Virginia to our guided hunt in British Columbia, we crossed the border into Canada at Portal, North Dakota/North Portal, Saskatchewan. From ezbordercrossing,.com we learned that Portal is a 24-hour border crossing, and as we had no clue how long the drive Read more…