Category Archives: Travel

Random Europe photo #1

Posted on 1 January, 2007 by Mike

Below the cut because it was screwing up my formatting… Banks of the Rhone. Arles, France. I really promise I’ll get around to (a) finished the Europe stories and (b) putting pictures from Europe and Japan on-line Real Soon Now. … Continue reading →

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Oooh! I wanna play too!

Posted on 31 December, 2006 by Mike

Meme time! “List the towns or cities where you spent at least a night away from home during 2006. Mark with a star if you had multiple non-consecutive stays.” This ought to be interesting. * Coquitlam, BC * Vancouver, BC … Continue reading →

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Great Marcellus Wallace moments in travel

Posted on 31 December, 2006 by Mike

The luau is the image most people have when they think about a great Hawaiian party. Me, not so much — I’ve done the luau thing, and I think I’d rather go find some local people, drink some beer, eat … Continue reading →

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This must be some new concept of manliness

Posted on 19 November, 2006 by Mike

From a list of nerdy gift ideas: Garmin Street Pilot C340 (Real men use real he-man navigational systems) $440 Available from Amazon To hell with that. Real men use sextants. I used to get into this argument a lot with … Continue reading →

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Waterfront property at low tide

Posted on 19 October, 2006 by Mike

Now with ultra-cool updates at the bottom! So I managed to set off the explosives detector at CYEG this afternoon on my way home. It was, to say the least, a humiliating experience, enhanced only by the frustration that I … Continue reading →

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11 hours of travel for 40 hours of bliss, part I

Posted on 2 August, 2006 by Mike

(The first in a series of tales relating to what I did on my European vacation after I stopped having reliable and/or cheap Internet access. Today’s adventures: Getting to Provence.) We left our hideaway in Riomaggiore at 09:00 intent on … Continue reading →

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Journal spackling

Posted on 24 July, 2006 by Mike

Obviously I’m home now. And obviously there were some, uh, gaps in the journal the past few weeks. That’s because once we left the Cinque Terre, my ability to find an Internet connection — and my ability to find time … Continue reading →

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O Bag, Where Art Thou?

Posted on 23 July, 2006 by Mike

Right. So. It’s 23;57 PDT. According to my body, it’s something like 07:57 BST. I have been up, more or less continously, since 04:30 BST yesterday and, after 22+ hours of non-stop traveling, have been home now for about four … Continue reading →

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The time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love

Posted on 30 June, 2006 by Mike

Leaving Venice was a lot harder than I had anticipated. I’d fallen for the place, hard, and with the expectation of Rome ahead, I can’t really say I was looking forward to taking off. Rome was a bit of a … Continue reading →

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Two if by canal

Posted on 24 June, 2006 by Mike

We arrived in Venice after a night of hell. As you might have guessed from the last entry, Vienna (and much of that part of the world) was under some kind of stagnant heat wave, the sort of thing that, … Continue reading →

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