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My Excellent Utah Adventure – Part 2
Early Mornings It’s 5AM and I’m already up. It’s 30 minutes earlier than I would normally get up for work and hours earlier than I would on a normal Saturday morning. But today’s anything but normal. I’m driving in the dark towards my destination and there’s no one else on the road. I just left my motel in the a small…
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My Excellent Utah Adventure – Part 1
It’s been four months since my last post. Our 2013 travel plans have been slow, with only a single trip to Hawaii in May. There were valid reasons for our hiatus, but I’m confident we’ll make up for lost time in the second half of the year. You might wonder why I’m planning a trip to Utah. It’s not our…
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Our Excellent Hawaiian Adventure
We recently just came back from a trip to Waikiki on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. We were there primarily to celebrate my Dad’s 90th birthday and several of us from Vancouver met up with my cousin and her husband who flew in from Melbourne, Austrailia to join us. In all there was 9 of us who were there and…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Victoria Weekend
Barb and I made some last-minute arrangements to spend a few days in Victoria. It’s most surprising that I’ve lived in Vancouver for over 30 years and I’ve never spent more than a few hours in our provincial capital city. Victoria is a really beautiful city and in the summertime, you can tell that the city has a huge budget…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Mountain Adventure – Final
The other day we wanted to take a break from snowshoeing so we drove an hour down the highway to the town of Banff. While the Lake Louise area has a lot of outdoor activities (most within walking distance of the chateau), Banff is just a much larger town and has a much larger selection of stores and restaurants and…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Mountain Adventure – Part 2
Out in the Snow Last night was our first night in Lake Louise and we had a great dinner at the Poppy Brasserie (one of the many restaurants in the hotel) before calling it a night. After the day spent traveling including the 2+ hour drive from Calgary we didn’t have the energy to stay up too late. By…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Mountain Adventure – Part 1
Barb and I have been told before that we don’t often follow the crowd. It’s almost February now and pretty much all of our friends who are traveling anywhere are going somewhere hot which, to be honest, is pretty typical this time of the year – Hawaii and Mexico being the most popular destinations. So, you might ask, where are…
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Our Excellent Houseboat Adventure
In British Columbia, when you mention houseboats, it almost always means house boating on Shuswap Lake. During the peak of summer, there will be hundreds of houseboats on the lake as it’s a very popular vacation pastime. Our first and only other time that we experienced house boating was in 1995 with Peter, Liz, my sister Wendy, her husband Ray…
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Our Excellent Australian Adventure – The Video
I’ve only done this a few times before for some of our previous trips but I think that the video that I made for our recent Australian Excellent Adventure is my best. You can watch the video online here. Baden
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Our Excellent Australian Adventure – Final
When the planning process was occurring for Our Excellent Australian Adventure and the subject of spending a few days in the Outback came up I have to confess that I really didn’t know what we were getting into. My first thoughts about “camping” were along the lines of what we did a few years ago in Tanzania while we went…