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fifty walks, walk seven
I’ve been working some long days up in the Peace Country doing census work. 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…
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fifty walks, walk six
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:…
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unreal asia
Did you travel in 2025? In 1998 I went to Europe for the first time. 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…
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japan-oramas, one
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… and your…
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hiragana two
Our plans to leap over the Pacific are become more real with each passing day, and my progress in dabbling in acquiring at least some Japanese language prior to that trip is progressing with promise. Sorta. Fluency? Heck no. But I am hopeful that I won’t be completely overwhelmed by even simple basics in a…