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604 Area Code
For those of you way out of the 604 telephone area code, this post may not be of interest. For those of you in the 403 and 306 area codes, this post may be of some interest. It’s all about … Continue reading
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Tagged #604, #COVID19, farms near me, food, neighbors, seafood near me
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What to Remember When this is All Over
Is the world ever going to be the same again? It can’t be. COVID 19 is the canary in the coal mine. It’s changing the power balance between traditional “superpowers”. The USS Theodore Roosevelt, a 5,000 person aircraft carrier patrolling … Continue reading
Top Ten Signs You Live in a COVID19 “Red Zone”
You surprise yourself with how shocked you are that servers in a restaurant outside your community are NOT wearing plastic gloves. Eating at home was never so appealing! In an effort to wash your hands long enough, you find yourself … Continue reading
A Blog about Traveling that’s about Not Traveling
Granted, these are spectacularly strange times. Orwellian, really. Today was Day One…Ground Zero if you like that term, of a shift in perception. I should have been waking up in Orange County. Am I disappointed? Honestly, no. But I am … Continue reading
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A Surprising “Welcome Aboard”
The BC Ferries tag line, “Welcome Aboard” has never been so fitting. I never thought these words would cross my lips about a government-run monopoly. “I’m impressed”. It really rubs against my fiscally responsible/socially progressive grain. Even stranger, for those … Continue reading
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India Won’t Leave my Mind
Even though India is in my rear-view mirror as I am now immersed back into my west-coast Canadian routines, I find it is on my mind every day. Have you noticed how you get asked, or you ask yourself, “what … Continue reading
OMGOMGOMG
How incredibly stupid. The pink scarf’s “esteemed” standing is now in serious jeopardy. But I am getting ahead of myself. Our last stop on this fast-paced vacation is to get-up-at-3:30am to leave Mussoorie and catch our 7:20 flight to Varanasi in … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddha, evening prayer service, Ganges, ghat, India, laundry, Sarnath, travel, Varanasi
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My Next Wedding
For a completely different scene, we went to one of the hill stations in northern India in the part of India that used to be part of Tibet, 7,500 feet up the foothills of the Himalayas. Specifically, a town called … Continue reading
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Tagged destination weddings, hill stations, Himalayas, India, Landour, Mussoorie, the Savoy
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Highways, Goat Tracks, and Perspective
So the patterns on my scarf are Sanskrit, I learned from my sister-in-law. And apparently my scarf has “come home”. A guide told me the writing was about one of the three “main” gods in the Hindu religion Shiva the … Continue reading
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Tagged car, drving, fear, goat tracks, highways, India, it's all relative, paved roads, perspective, relative, road trip, travel
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Grab the Bull by the Horns
(co-edited by the one in the blue scarf…aka my daughter) The versatile pink scarf is acquiring some new purposes on this trip. On safari to the “jungle” (which just looked too dry and sparse to allow my brain to categorize … Continue reading
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