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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 01:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’ve been working some long days up in the Peace Country doing census work.&#160; I have been out on the road for as much as twelve hours each day, lots of driving, and then coming back to the hotel to do paperwork. It’ll be some good honest money when I’m done, but man am I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>fifty walks, walk six</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I spent the whole week doing census work up North and about mid week my prescribed route landed me in a town I’d heard about but had never thought I would visit, let alone knock on every single door: Eaglesham. If you’re googling the name of your town and come across this post then yeah: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 01:43:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let’s call this one the Watino Waltz. I’ve had a lot of time behind the wheel of a car this week contemplating why I’m up in the nothern parts of the province, but it comes down to democracy. Every few years the government does some serious work that helps turn the wheels of our democracy, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Being self-employed as I am, the holidays of my family tend to erupt into a kind of blur of confusion that leave me a bit discombobulated. The Kid just finished her reading week break, and we capped it off with a trip to the mountains, having left last Thursday and rolled back home on Sunday [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What adventure from 2025 will be forever etched upon your memory? It would be super simple sitting here less than a month after spending most of November in Japan to just write… Japan! with a huge exclamation mark and move on to the next post (heck knows these days leading in the holidays are busy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Did you travel in 2025? In 1998 I went to Europe for the first time.&#160; Until that moment of stepping off the plane and riding the train into London’s Victoria Station with my giant backpack over my shoulder, Europe was an abstraction in my head. It was this place I had heard about over and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[What excited you most in 2025? It turns out there are two subtly different terms for non-Asian people who find themselves with an interest in Japan: one can be a japanophile &#8230;or one can be a weeaboo (or weeb). Both are similar terms, but like anything we do in this crazy culture of ours one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
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					<description><![CDATA[November has ended, and on the last weekend of the month I time travelled across sixteen timezones, arriving back home before I left Tokyo. Weird, huh? Our flight left Narita airport at 18:30 on Saturday evening and we arrived in Edmonton at 16:20 the same day. International travel can mess with your mind&#8230; and your [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sayonara, but not forever.&#160; My class is done. My flash cards have just one more flash or so left in them. And I’ve definitely got Google Translate loaded up on my phone. As it is looking, forty-eight hours or so after writing this I’ll be sound asleep in Tokyo… y’know with the math on time [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 14:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has actually been a couple months since we took a spring trip out to the west coast and spent a five day long weekend in Vancouver. It wasn’t so much that I forgot to write about it, only that I wasn’t blogging much back even two months ago (having not yet rebooted this site) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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