Bruce and Connie’s Retirement Trip<\/p>\n
4 Months across Canada and the U.S. – Fall 2009<\/p>\n
2009 was a busy and highly eventful year.\u00a0 <\/span>I conducted my last Chamber Singers\u2019 concert in Victoria and enjoyed several retirement parties at the same time and in April took my last concert tour with the Chamber Singers and Prima Choir combined, visiting Korea, Thailand, Cambodia and Hong Kong (https:\/\/brucemore.ca\/tour-2009\/).\u00a0 <\/span>Since Connie and I were now officially retired, we decide to go on a 4 month car trip, just the two of us, staying with friends, relatives and colleagues in various locations across Canada and down to Virginia, returning across the northern US just before New Years. I include our itinerary and a map, and a few selected photos. We visited and were hosted by several of Connie\u2019s Kodaly colleagues and gave a few workshops as well.<\/p>\n We spent our first night in Alberta, visiting enroute the pub at Crownest where the Chamber Singers gave their first out-of-province \u201cconcert\u201d in 1980 (1,2) . We enjoyed several nights in a cabin at Gull Lake belonging to our friend Margaret Brownrigg\u2019s family.\u00a0 <\/span>They first built the cabin in1960, but the lake has been drying up and the water\u2019s edge is now a quarter mile away (5). We visit my Cousins Johnny in Red Deer (7), and Ron (8) and Dave (3) in Calgary.\u00a0 <\/span>Connie visited colleagues in Edmonton, where Eila (6) gave us her spider impression and Medicine hat where we stayed with Chamber Singer extraordinaire Mark Ward and his wife Pat (9). The rest of our prairie stops in Regina, Saskatoon, Brandon and Winnipeg were filled with wonderful hostings and\u00a0 <\/span>several workshops given by Connie and I (4,11).<\/p>\n\n\t\t