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Travel: Disney in the Time of COVID
My wife has been waking up at three thirty in the morning lately. Deliberately. Her alarm goes off, she activates her phone, logs into the Disneyworld website, and queues up her virtual reservation system trying to get us a dinner seating at a reasonable time and place … for some time next year. I’m not…
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Travel: Fruits, Wines, and a Weekend Half
Two years ago this past weekend the world was a very different place. The world was different enough that we had no issues hopping into the car, driving for nearly ten hours straight, and wending our way across the prairies, over the rocky mountain passes, and into the verdant Okanagan Valley in nearby British Columbia.…
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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…