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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Part 2
London Calling London is one of those cities that you hear about all of your life and if you’re lucky enough to eventually go there you find that it really does live up to all of its expectations. That’s certainly what Barb and I thought…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent African Adventure – Part 1
One of the most common things that I hear from people when we get a few days away from going on one of our Excellent Adventures is along the lines “you must be pretty used to going away on these trips”. True enough, there’s a…
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Barb and Baden’s Excellent Weekend Getaway
Today was the first day our Barb’s Mystery Adventure and all I was told was that we had to leave just after 10:00 this morning to catch a ferry to somewhere. It was only once we were aboard the ferry that our destination was made…
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Barb’s Mystery Adventure
Tomorrow morning we’re heading off on a mini-weekend adventure that Barb’s quietly put together. We’ve both taken off Monday to make it a long weekend but the interesting thing is that I don’t know where we’re going. You might remember that I did a similar…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 6
It hasn’t escaped me that it’s been 4 months since my last blog post. Without getting into too many excuses, there always seemed to be something else that had to be done and lately the blog has been taking a back seat. Nonetheless, there have…
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Viva Vegas – Part 2
A Shootin’ Good Vegas Time As I’m wiring this, we’ve been in Las Vegas for almost two and a half days now and we have another full day here before our return flight tomorrow night. Tonight will be the highlight of our trip as we…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 5
Since my last posting in January on the travel planning process for our Excellent African Adventure, a lot has happened. Most importantly, we decided that the political situation in Kenya wasn’t showing the improvements that we had hoped for and subsequently made the decision to…
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Viva Vegas – Part 1
With all of our attention over the last few months focused on the planning details of our African adventure in the fall (now only 5 months away), there hasn’t been much discussion about any travel plans that we might do this year. This wasn’t because…
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Africa Preview as Seen Locally
A trip out to the Fraser Valley yesterday all happened on the spur of the moment. I had suggested to Barb that we should get out of the house as I felt like taking some pictures outside in the sunny weather. Barb immediately suggested that…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 4: Turmoil in Kenya
The process of travel planning always involves all kinds of research and the discovery of new cultures and sights. Once we’ve decided on a destination, we start doing all of the specific research for the places within that destination that we may want to go…
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An Excellent Adventure of a Lifetime
Many people whom I’ve talked to about our plans to go to Africa later this year naturally assume that this trip will be the high water mark for any of the vacations that we have gone to before – a trip of a lifetime. Not…
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More travel, Less food
I’m coming up on the 3rd anniversary of me running ExcellentAdventure.ca and if you’re reading this you’ll have already noticed that everything looked quite different. I’ve had to do some hard thinking about how much time it takes for me to write articles for the…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 3
Under normal circumstances, with Christmas just over a week away Barb and I would be spending most of our energy getting ready for the holidays. It’s not that those Christmas things aren’t being done but today was a particularly productive day for our travel as…
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Eastern Canada Storm Blows Over
Only about 3 weeks have passed since our return from eastern Canada and like most people have been hearing about the big storm that has passed through that part of the country which is the tail end of tropical storm Noel. While we were able…
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Our Excellent Eastern Canada Pictures
It’s now been a week since we’ve been home from our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure and as usual, normal life has long since taken over. The return home from this particular vacation was a lot easier because of the relatively short flying time from Montreal…
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Our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure – Final
This weekend marks the final stretch of our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure as today (day 16) is technically a long weekend for most everyone but of course a long weekend has little meaning when you are on vacation. We left Quebec City this morning and…
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Our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure – Part 5
When I last wrote we were about to leave Rimouski and continue to head east to our next destination of Montmagny (pronounced: mo-ma-nee). We had spent a few hours in Rimouski after dinner (which we happened to have that night at a Quebec dining institution…
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Our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure – Part 4
Skipping New Brunswick With the decision made to skip St. Andrews and removing several hundred kilometers from our trip, we headed north on highway 11 to ultimately cross the bridge into Quebec at the town of Cambellton, New Brunswick. On our way north through New…
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Our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure – Part 3
It’s interesting how the weather can play such an important part of how much you will enjoy a vacation. For example I have always felt that our trip down to New Zealand never rated too highly – most likely because we experienced rain on about…
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Our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure – Part 2
Emergencies Really Do Happen Day 2 of our Eastern Canada Excellent Adventure started out like any other but by the time it was over would stand out as one that we would be talking about for some time to come. The good news is that…
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Our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure – Part 1
All things considered, travelling across the country from Vancouver to Halifax isn’t such a big deal under normal circumstances. However, throw in an all nighter red-eye flight and it would make any flight all that more grueling. The start to our Eastern Canada Excellent Adventure…
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The Making of Our Excellent Eastern Canada Adventure – Part 2
It’s less than a day before our suitcases come out of the basement. Clothes are being sorted for a final wash load. The List has been printed to make sure that everything gets packed. This can only mean one thing. An Excellent Adventure is about…
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Excellent Adventure Travel Tips version 2
About two and a half years ago I posted my original Excellent Adventure Travel Tips document. This document was a compilation of (at the time) about 10 years of Excellent Adventures and summed up an ongoing research effort on my part of reading every “how…
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Learning About Cheese By The Book
As you might have gathered from my recent post about the local cheese shop Les Amis du Fromage, Barb and I really like our cheese. However, I didn’t say how we managed to find this cheese shop. It came about when I happened to purchase…
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The Making of an Excellent African Adventure – Part 2
With all of the travel planning for our upcoming trip to Eastern Canada pretty much wrapped up, I should give you an update on our next big Adventure which is already in the planning stages. I had mentioned in my previous post on the subject…
