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Christmas Letter 2022

December 23, 2022By admin10 Comments
Christmas Letter 2022

It’s almost Christmas. As I put the finishing touches on this letter, there are white-out conditions outside and the wind sounds like it’s going to blow the door in. Gotta love these Ontario winters. But I’ll take inclement weather over […]

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Christmas Letter 2021

December 23, 2021By admin20 Comments
Christmas Letter 2021

It’s 6 am on December 22, 2021.  The news is all about the Omicron variant causing yet another wave of COVID-19.  Everyone is cancelling long-awaited trips and Christmas get-togethers yet again.  We’re coming up on two years of this pandemic […]

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Christmas letter 2019

December 24, 2019By admin39 Comments
Christmas letter 2019

The last time we posted on this blog was four months ago, at the end of our one year journey around the world, so you might be wondering what the heck happened to us. “Are they depressed that their trip […]

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The last day

July 28, 2019By admin17 Comments
The last day

There is an entire continent (South America) that we have not posted about yet – we are a little behind, but those pieces are coming. In the meantime, even if it throws our little blog out of chronological order, I […]

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What on earth are travel bucks?

July 1, 2019By admin2 Comments
What on earth are travel bucks?

We were touring around Urubamba, Peru with our wonderful driver, Enrique, in his beat-up white station wagon. Eli and Jake were the lucky ones who got to ride in the very back. At one point Eli was being silly and […]

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Stuck on a nail

June 23, 2019By admin15 Comments
Stuck on a nail

A man pays a visit to a friend. As they sit on the front porch talking, the friend’s dog lies beside them, twitching and wimpering. “What’s wrong with your dog?” the man asks.“Oh, there’s a nail sticking up in the […]

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New Zealand part 5: The north island

June 18, 2019By admin2 Comments
New Zealand part 5: The north island

New Zealand’s north and south islands are roughly equal in size, but not in fame; the south island seems to get all the attention whereas the north island is the urbanized sidekick; Mario’s Luigi, Batman’s Robin; Ferris Bueller’s Cameron – […]

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New Zealand part four: the rest of the south island

June 1, 2019By admin4 Comments
New Zealand part four: the rest of the south island

After the glow worms – and especially Milford Sound – we couldn’t help but suspect that we’d seen the best of New Zealand – the enchanted far south. But as we drove from Te Anau to Wanaka there was more […]

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Thinking critically about constructive criticism

May 31, 2019By admin32 Comments
Thinking critically about constructive criticism

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving. Dale Carnegie I’ve been writing a lot about destinations recently, and less about the the thoughts and changes that […]

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New Zealand Part Three: glow worms and fjords

May 18, 2019By admin10 Comments
New Zealand Part Three: glow worms and fjords

We woke up early. A fast breakfast of muesli and fruit; high octane coffee for those of age. I had filled up the minivan with fuel the night before. There would be no gas stations between us and our destination, […]

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