Wojtaszek Travel Album - Capturing the Journey


Long Beach, California	Pelican at Long Beach

Entrance to Disneyland	My first ears!

Mickey Mouse!	Minnie Mouse!


Toon Town	It's a Small World

Dinner at the Blue Bayou Resturant in the Pirates of the Carribbean	Jedi Training Academy

Paradise Pier	Paradise Pier at night


Mickey leading the Marching Band	Christmas in Disneyland!

My Winnie the Pooh (that Duncan made for me in Downtown Disney's Build-a-Bear), Minnie and Mickey	Sully!

Family Portrait	With Minnie and Mickey


Duncan with Elastigirl	Raven waiting for Phantasmic to start

Our first Character Meal	Getting Coffee

Palm Tree	Family Portrait


Fireworks over the Castle!	Fireworks over the Castle!

Wes with Mickey Hat and Gloves	Duncan with Baloo at Goofy's Kitchen

Washington, DC USA July 2006


Bill Reids Sculpture at the Canadian Embassy	With some Mounties on Canada Day at the Canadian Embassy

Canadian Embassy in Washington DC	Stampede Breakfast at the Embassy to celebrate July 1st in Washington

Duncan on the roof of the Embassy on July 4th	The Dome of the Capitol


The Capitol on July 4th	World War II Memorial

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial	Thomas Jefferson Memorial

On the steps of the US Supreme Court	The US Supreme Court


At the Library of Congress	The Old Post Office

Union Station	Duncan at the Washington Monument

"Price of Freedom" at the WWII Memorial	Korean War Memorial


Vietnam War Memorial	Abraham Lincoln Memorial

Abraham Lincoln	FDR

The White House	The White House


Hall of Remembrance	Washington Holocaust Museum

"Ginevra de' Benci" (c. 1474) The only DaVinci outside of Europe	Giraffe at the Washington National Zoo

The Canadian Ambassador's Residence	The Pentagon


The National Cathedral	Washington Monument seen from the WWII Memorial

The Capitol Building	Library of Congress

More Washington Pictures here

Arlington, VA USA July 2006


The final resting place of Pierre L'Enfant	Arlington House - Custis-Lee Mansion

President Kennedy's Grave	Typical Arlington

Older Arlington has many larger gravestones	Duncan in Arlington


Rows and Rows	Wallace Fitz Randolph & family under an actual Civil war cannon

Changing of the Guard	Tomb of the Unkown Soldier

American Flag	Memorial and gravesite for the Challenger Space Shuttle Astronauts


U.S. Marine Corps Iwo Jima Memorial	July 4th at Arlington - Marines are arriving


The Hoover Dam is a concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River	We flew over the Dam - it borders the states of both Arizona and Nevada

Grand Canyon National Park encompasses 1,218,375 acres on the Colorado Plateau	Made by the Colorado River the Canyon is 4000 to 6000 feet deep for its entire 277 miles

The South Rim of Grand Canyon averages 7000 feet/2134 m above sea level	Nearly two billion years of the Earth's history has been exposed

Ponderosa Pine	The width of the Canyon varies from 4 miles to 18 miles wide

The South Rim of the Grand Canyon forms the Coconino Plateau	Taking a break

Duncan in the Grand Canyon	Lonely Tree

This is Bitey - earned that name after biting Duncan's finger	Bitey helping himself to my Trail Mix

The South Rim Grand Canyon	A Condor - part of the Condor Recovery Program in the National Park


Duncan and Allie in the Grand Canyon	A look back up towards the rim

Over 47 types of reptile and 9 types of amphibian, species are found in the park	Another Lizzard

Colorado River and the Grand Canyon from the air (helicopter tour over the Canyon)	A dead tree - the tour guide said they can live for 600 years

More Grand Canyon Pictures here


Welcome to Las Vegas!	Cactus Flowers

The Mirage	Duncan in Las Vegas

Wynn Las Vegas	The Hilton

At the Star Trek Experience	At the Star Trek Experience

Caesar's Palace	Statue of Liberty

Our Gondolier at the Venetian	A romantic Gondolar Ride at the Venetian Hotel

Hooters Las Vegas	Duncan and Hooters Girls

Duncan and Showgirls from Folies Bergere	Duncan and showgirls in Paris


Duncan and showgirl in Fremont Street	In the Mirage Atrium

New York New York Skyline	MGM Grand Lion (from the Wizard of Oz)

Sphinx and Pyramid at the Luxor	Inside of Aladdin

The Arc de Triomphe at Paris	Bridesmaid and Groomsman at Brett and Beatrice's Wedding

Treasure Island	Allie and Elvises

The Eiffel Tower	Paris at Night

The Stratosphere Tower	Bellagio Watershow (as seen from the Eiffel Tower)

After visiting the indoor range at Gun Store (fired an AK-47)	Fremont Street Experience


The first mountains as you enter the park	Roche Miette Range

Taken from a look out point	Big Horn Sheep

Athabasca River - it's been such a warm winter it's not even frozen!	Behind the Athabasca River is Pryamid Mountain

A small stream winding its way through a mountain meadow	The Mountains are very beautiful

Jasper is an old CP Rail town and evidence of that history is all through the townsite	The Jasper Townsite

The Ice of Lac Beauvert which we enjoyed skating around on	Looking across Lac Beauvert at the Fairmont Jasper Place Lodge


Taking a break at the Lodge	These White Tail Deer were licking the salt off the roadway

More White Tail Deer	Raven admiring the winter fauna

We saw a lot of Elk in the park	And Ravens too!

The setting sun turns the Mountains Purple	Leaving Jasper behind us...


Maligne Canyon is hundreds of feet deep	The Canyon was created by receeding galciers

Duncan taking a break beside the Canyon	This frozen waterfall was the highlight of our hike - you could actually see and hear the water rushing behind its icy encasement

A pool of water at the bottom of the Canyon	Duncan and I at the descent into Medicine Lake

Medicine Lake	I love the way the snow defines the crevices

The rocky mountainside surrounds the lake	Just as we are getting ready to leave


Elk Island National Park is known for it's majestic stands of Birch Trees	Duncan spotted this Plains Bison in the Astotin Lake Area. They weigh about 2000 pounds

About 515 wild Plains Bison call the Park home while another 315 wild Wood Buffalo live in the southern part of the Park	Here he is running past us... believe it or not he moved like a deer when it hops through a meadow

One of many Beaver Lodges found through out the Park; 2000 Beavers live here	I couldn't resist taking this picture of "beaver prints" in the snow close to a Beaver Dam

We found this lodge while hiking the Beaver Lodge Trail, we walked out on the ice to get a better look	Here is Duncan standing on the ice covering Lake Astotin

An island in the middle of Astotin Lake, not far from where we heard coyotes singing and saw Elk and White Tail Deer	Duncan and I sitting on a viewing bench at Tawayik Lake. Pope John Paul II sat on this very bench in 1984

A meadow typical of the aspen parklands, where Moose, Buffalo, Elk and Deer graze on the sedge grass and lichen	Yet another Beaver Lodge, surrounded by long sedge grasses


Looking over the Helen Schuler Coulee	In the Helen Schuler Coulee

The longest and highest train bridge of its kind in the world (1.6 km long & 96 m high)	Wesley standing under the High Level Train Bridge

The long hallway at the U of L	Allie and Duncan bundled up to go outside

A Coulee in Paradise Valley	Overlooking Paradise Valley

Abandoned Wagon Wheel	Abandoned Wagon

Prairie Grass with light dusting of snow	Duncan in Paradise

One Deer	More Deer

Granary in Nanton Alberta	This is rural Alberta!


Banff National Park, Fall Colours	The abandoned "Lamphouse" in Bankhead

Duncan standing in a field on the Bankhead trail hike	Duncan, Neil and Will on the abandoned coal train in Bankhead

The Cascade Ponds	Duncan on a bridge over the Cascade Ponds

Castle Mountain	The Victoria Glacier at Lake Louise

Lake Louise is very romantic	Here's the classic shot of the lake and Glacier

Louise Creek flows to the Bow River	A shot from the highway

Rundle Mountain	The Bow River Falls

The Banff Township	Three Sisters in Canmore

Elbow River in Calgary	Cochrane, Alberta


Outside the Hockey Hall of Fame, Edie Parker's sculpture titled "Our Game."	The old Maple Leaf Gardens.

Duncan Street, Toronto	The ceiling in the HHOF

This view of the HHOF taken from our doubledecker tour bus	Union Station

The glass floor in the CN Tower	The Casa Loma

A star for a star	View of Toronto skyline taken from a boat tour out on Lake Ontario

The Toronto Islands (also taken while on boat tour)	The boardwalk along Lake Ontario

A bar in Toronto's Gay Town	This is the original Stanley Cup

Look up, waaaaay up. It's the CN Tower!	Toronto's famous City Hall

Niagara Falls, Ontario July 2005


The Canadian Horseshoe Falls	The American Falls

Another shot of the falls as we are getting on the Maid of the Mist	Niagara Falls are beautiful!

In the actual "mist" from the Canadian Falls	It was 43 degrees - no need to wear that plastic rain poncho they give you

West Coast British Columbia July 2004


Duncan looking out over the Nanaimo Harbour	The Bastian, Nanaimo BC

Duncan Street, Duncan BC	Duncan is home to the worlds Largest Hockey Stick. No kidding.

Duncan in the City of Totems	Skipping rocks on Westwood Lake

Out at Duke's Point watching eagles	Goats on the roof in Coombs BC

Duncan in Cathedral Grove with an 800 year old tree	Walking around the old growth forest

Cathedral Grove Provincial Park	Camping at Westwood Lake, Nanaimo BC

Native Art carving contest in Campbell River BC	On the beach in Oyster River BC

Rocky Mountains	Bridal Falls, Hope BC


The Sunshine Coast	Newlyweds on the ferry

Queen of Coquitlam

Calgary, Alberta August 2003


The Bow River	Again, the Bow River

Wes and Raven playing in the river	Duncan getting ready to venture forth

A creek by the duck pond where we used to live	Also t he duck pond by where we used to live

Callaway Park	Waiting for the Coaster at Callaway

Barrier Lake, Alberta August 2003


Barrier Lake at sunset, Kananasksis Alberta	Kids playing by the Barrier Lake Dam

Kananasksis River, Alberta May 2000


White water rafting	About to go over "The Widow-Maker"

Glacier Lake, Rocky Mountains Alberta August 2000


Silhouetted against the setting sun, Glacier Lake is accessible only by a three hour hike	Glacier Lake borders on an actual Glacier and the water is always freezing cold