A few fun moments early in the month before Stampede started up. Stayed with my drink canadian beer theme, began working as a business developer and playing as a local sailor again.
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| "I don't like this seat" - BMX |
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| "This is better" First bike in 30+ yrs |
Beer slap, my promise to stop American beer drinking on Canada day. I want to see more of these videos! Common Canada.
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| Yeah! 157 years |
Let the Stampede roll... Day A (one day before Day 1)
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| Howdy |
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| Poncho Man |
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| Late at Wildhorse with Will |
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| Early at Ryan's Cantina |
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| Borrowed, but only for a second |
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| New stickers |
Day 4 - Invited by an old friend Dan Vacon (lead singer of the Dudes) to watch him and a few others do a few acoustic sets while I ate and drank for free. Thanks buddy.
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| Hey wait, These aren't my boots? |
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| My boots in 2018 |
Dan Vacon and friends at a Village Brewery's Stampede party. Great beer and food.
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| Local lead singers |
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| Still sunny out and partying on |
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| Cops taking down walkers, gettim! |
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Great view of fireworks from
the "New" King Eddy Blues Bar |
Day 5 - Boot recovery and Pipeworx party
Side Story - Some how left Ryan's Cantina party on Saturday with the wrong boots. But I really wasn't sure until I asked around and heard back that another Ryan who got in a taxi in his socks with someone else's boots in his hand. Lucky news was that Ryan was awesome enough to drive my boots to my place pre the Pipeworx party. Thanks Ryan!
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| Mine on the right |
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This is what happens when you take
the train just before the rodeo |
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The Edmonton Joey's girls that come
down to make a pile of cash ~$1000 |
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A quick blip hanging on a bus
that wasn't for us (Alex). |
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| Randoms |
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| More Randoms |
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| But friendly |
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| Love the pole dancing/balancing |
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| Knoxvilles |
Tim Hicks, a really good canadian country artist who nailed some covers too.
Day 6 - Yikes, 3 days in a row is not recommended. What a BD man must endure.
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| I don't endorse this |
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| Chuck, Brent joining me |
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| Always someone picking up the slack when others falter |
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That's a bouncer impressed with my
line ride of no cigarette past this point,
no drink past that one. "Riding the line." |
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| Mike and More random friends |
Day 7 - simply being a good designated driver for a friend. Perfect timing catching cool fireworks on the way to get them at Wildhorse.
Day 8 - BC/DC brought their Nelson, BC AC/DC cover band to the Wildhorse. Steve and friends enjoyed and then stuck around to make a private area where we could interview people as representatives of an Edmonton Radio station. It's a famous one.
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Enjoyed watching this jackass use
his puppy to meet a girl every 5 min
on the train ride downtown. |
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| Foreshadowing the Bub Crawl |
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| BC/DC |
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| Sweet |
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| Good times |
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| Some of the interviewees |
Day 9 - The 3rd Annual Stampede BUB Crawl, and may be the last, haha.
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| Now that's a ceasar to help a hangover |
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| Stop 2, Cold Garden in Inglewood |
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| Stop 3, Cabin brewery. |
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| Big ride this year |
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| Even had a scooter girl with us |
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| What stop is this? 6 or 7... |
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| Back to downtown across the Peace |
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| Big time at Wild Horse |
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| Bouncing the end of the night Dale? |
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| The Legend of Steve grows |
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| Pete, Nic and Steve still going at 4am |
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| The Legend of Dale grows |
Some other moments through out the month. Truck jacking, sailing and more...
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| Truxxx 2" lift kit |
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| ah... not so easy |
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| 3 hours for one quarter of the job |
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| 9 hours later. |
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| Looks good |
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| Getting nautical |
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| Good times |
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| That's a big burger |
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| At Dixon's Pub |
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| Wasp killing - 13! |
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| Leave my house alone WASPs! |
Other Stuff
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| Great live blues at the Blues Can |
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| No wonder my pipes plug up |
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| Interesting medical questions |
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| Memory shelf |
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| That's a rotten apple |
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| Liquor cabinet all set |
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| I like spiders |
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| What the hell? |
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| Garden coming along |
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| Beautiful salmon dish at Steve's |
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| Homie Shawn |
