Other than being in Ottawa now on my cooking class, this trip is significant in another way. It is important because it will be the first field test of using my Dell Axim Pocket PC to post to my blog – exactly the way that…

Wherever we’ve travelled throughout the world, when we’ve told people that we are from Vancouver, we’re often told how lucky we are to live here and how beautiful they have heard our city is. To be true, we feel particularly blessed living here and having…

I suppose it could be a lot worse. I found out this morning that my flights to Ottawa next weekend to attend the Cordon Bleu cooking class are cancelled. Cancelled due to the fact that the discount airline JetsGo decided to declare bankruptcy yesterday. I…

It was just after returning home after our trip to France last fall when I first started to put together the details of how I was going to build this new site. I had looked at a couple of different programs that fell into the…

It can easily be said that travel is a passion of ours. Barb and I look forward to our Excellent Adventures each year and spend most of the year before that planning them. Business travel, on the other hand, has little in the way of…

Getting the words down is always the most difficult part. What I mean by that is that when I’m on the road in some faraway place, it’s one thing to collect interesting notes in my notebook for my Excellent Adventure emails that I have sent…

About 6 months ago (while we were planning our recent trip to France), I decided that I wanted to change the way that I was sending out my Excellent Adventure updates. As most of you know, I was previously just sending out emails to a…