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Note to Gordon Lightfoot: “Carefree Highway” is not so care-free in a 33 foot Motor Home
Our decision to rent an rv for this trip was not made a long time ago. Eager Europeans (for the most part) long ago reserved their “normal” sized motor homes for their rocky mountain Canadiana. When we started looking, the … Continue reading
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Tagged British Columbia Okanagon, camping, family travel, humour, motor home rental, RV travel
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Boston: It Could Still be a Great Canadian City
Boston. It should be part of Canada. I don’t think Bostonians would really mind. They like hockey. They have snow. They use “sorry” like we do. They’d assimilate quickly. Have you ever noticed that? To me, “sorry” should be reserved … Continue reading
Time Travel: Cape Cod Style
Twenty years, at least, is the length of time this part of Massachusetts has been on my radar. A bucket list item. The trouble with bucket lists is that with anticipation like that, it’s hard to separate out expectations. It’s … Continue reading
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Tagged 1950's, 1960's, beaches, Boston, Cape Cod, cycling, family travel, humor, Hyannis port, managing expectations, Martha Stewart, Massachusetts, travel, Truro
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It’s Important to Wear Clean Underwear Because You Never Know What’s Going to Happen…
11:45 pm and way past my bedtime. In truth, I had been asleep, but now I stand in my hair-standing-on-end, be speckled state on a Boston sidewalk. You might recall from an earlier blog that my eye glasses NEVER go … Continue reading
Have you Ever Noticed How Much People Wear on Themselves?
Boston. Wicked Smaht. A few fun facts to illustrate the point…back in the day of the thirteen colonies. You know… pre-1776 and all that, Massachusetts literacy rate was 88%. Too bad today’s fashion wasn’t in fashion in 1761…they could have … Continue reading
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Tagged 2013 world series, Baseball, Boston, Cambridge, CBC, family travel, Harvard, humour, Ian Hanomansing, Kansas City Royals, logo clothing, Massachusetts, MBTA, Red Socks, travel, Yankees
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Manzanillo is a ’10’
I can’t leave this part of Mexico without commenting on Manzanillo. If you’ve been exposed to North American culture, and are over the age of 35…then with or without realizing it, you know about Manzanillo. Especially if you saw Dudley … Continue reading
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Tagged '10', Bo Derek, boogie boards, Dudley Moore, family travel, hair braids, Manzanillo, Manzanillo beaches, Mexico, wave rider
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Another Top Ten…
…signs of “re-entry”to my native habitat from a long absence: 1. I can’t find my car keys anywhere…they’re somplace “safe”. Oh boy, those keys are so safe it took days and days to recover them. 2. Nice friends are phoning to say … Continue reading
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Tagged Europe, family travel, house exchange, humour, jet lag, road trip, technology
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Two cell phones (that will stop working tomorrow), one iPad (with a big crack in the screen), one tablet, three kindles, three ipods (one dead), a Nintendo 3DS (child bored of it though since he’s played the same three games for three months), and half a computer (with no audio, another one got dropped, and the third is “frozen”)
I didn’t share this, but while in the Netherlands in July (now I’m in Holland), the d ,m, and r keys stopped working on my computer. My blog was going to be about how hard it was to be creative … Continue reading
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Tagged amsterdam, cycling, Europe, family travel, Holland, humour, off the beaten path, technology, the Netherlands, train travel
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