Over the years I have attended, worked with and organized hundreds of festivals and events. With this new series, "INSIDE with the Festival Nomad", I want to give you an "inside" look at some of the festivals and events that I have been involved with or that I have visited. Along the way, I have had a lot of fun and sometimes frustration, but I have never been bored!
ACROSS
CANADA … Off Again!
After
attending the inaugural Queen’s Cup
at Spruce Meadows and being that close
to the Queen, the next week/days seemed anti-climatic! However, we still had
work to do and Red Deer and Edmonton were calling. Red Deer is approximately
halfway between Calgary and Edmonton. From Red Deer we traveled to Jasper
National Park. As I have mentioned previously, part of the reason for our
trip was to promote Michael Dumas and
Buckhorn Publishing, but the other
part was to visit Canada’s National Parks
and to talk to their volunteers. It is always interested us to see these people
in action and to see the different ways they raised money for their organizations.
In Jasper we visited the Kerry Wood
Nature Centre and talked to the volunteers there. As we drove to the Town
of Jasper we saw a number of wonderful sights. Of course, there were the mountains,
but there was also “Blue Ice” glaciers
to gaze at and animals to “watch” out
for. A Big Horned sheep ran right in front of our van, while a Moose in a field
looked lazily up at us while we passed it by! Jasper is a mountain park town,
but its streets tend to be more open and the downtown less commercial then
Banff. When we parked our van, Elk wondering all over the streets and in people
yards! Jasper was fun to explore and we reluctantly left it to journey to
Edmonton. We had a lot more people to see!
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