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Hiking: Johnston Canyon
During the summer of 2021 we took a pair of casual family vacations to the mountains. The first and more southern of these was a trip to the proximity of Banff National Park. Four nights in Canmore, Alberta a mountain town just outside of the national park boundary served as the staging point for a
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Travel Run: Dopey Disney Florida Whimsy (Part One)
Way back at the beginning of 2014 I found myself standing on a strip of asphalt road outside of Epcot center in Walt Disney World in Florida preparing to run a series of four consecutive races across four days. How I had decided many months earlier to take on the Dopey Challenge, a four race
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Half Ha Ling
This month marks a year and a half since our local area got caught up in the global pandemic that, among many other things, made world travelling near impossible. We’ve made up for this by trying to find some room between the bad news, ever-shifting-work-life, and many cancelled plans to get away on some local
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Local Big (Part Two): Kielbasa
A couple weeks ago as I was getting ready for my summer posting schedule, I wrote about the local “world’s biggest” attractions that are dotted all around the rural countryside near where we live. As it happens, we took the scenic route home from a weekend camping trip, driving for two an a half hours
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Local Big
In merely one week I’m going to be packing up that little black truck in the background of this photo and driving north with a cargo of camping gear to spend some quality time in the Alberta wilderness. (No) thanks to the pandemic it’s been two years since I’ve slept in a tent, and coincidentally