idle musings

I am planning a trip to Australia sometime in the next year and a half. A girlfriend of mine got accepted to med school in Brisbane and that is giving me the opportunity I needed to travel down under. I have 100,000 points saved up on my Aeroplan Visa, which will fly me in the [...]

Mike and I went to the Island for five days for some much needed R&R after the craziness that is retail during Christmas. We stayed with his grandparents in Campbell River for two nights, then drove over to Ucluelet and stayed there for two nights as well. His grandparents have seven Burmese cats – they [...]

I’m heading over to the Island tomorrow for five days, for a much needed ‘get the hell out of town’ vacation. I leave you with some interspecies snorgling. Well, one is trying to snorgle. The other is … not resisting too much.

Especially when you have a purring kitty to snuggle up with in bed. The trip was great (see pictures and commentary here) but as always, traveling makes me realize just how much I love my city.

I’m in Virginia at the moment. Will be wandering around the western edge of the state for the next day and a half, then heading into Washington DC on Saturday. I don’t plan to post any pictures until we hit Washington, and then I will be doing daily updates to my travel blog: Travels by [...]

I was chatting with my dad tonight about where we are sitting in the plane for our flights down to DC and back, because he likes the window and I like the aisle, and I’m used to international flights having 2 seats, then 4 or 5 seats, then another 2. Our flights have 3 per [...]

I think I would like to go on safari and see the wild animals, before they all die off because of our lack of stewardship of the earth. Also, I think I would like to do this soon, as in the next few years, because flying may no longer be an option for us regular [...]

Home again. Camping was great fun. Aside from a couple on the other side of the campground, we were the only campers. We had two deer walk through our campsite, only about 5 feet away from me. I could have almost reached out and patted them. We had a rascally raccoon who came to rustle [...]

I’m finally going to use some of my Aeroplan points that I have been hoarding for five years or so. Instead of going to Trinidad this August, as that is clearly off the table, I have decided to take a trip in early September. All the students will be back in school and the weather [...]