Travel Adventures

In need of some sun sand and surf and on the cusp of a milestone birthday I decided to spend a week at a surf camp where I enjoyed the sunny 30degree Dominican sun met some newfound friends caught a wave or two and enjoyed exploring the local beachside town. A link to a travel article I wrote for a local paper is available here httpwww.straight.comlife341141learningsurflaidback

We checked out of our hotel and used the hotel shuttle to get to Gare du Nord. We deliberately arrived early in order to purchase snacks for on the train. We had booked first class seats on the Thalys but wanted to be prepared in case we werent happy with the supplied food. I had already emailed Thalys and been told that even though we were on a train leaving at 10.30am and not arriving until

First off a little I39m naive disclaimer There39s no way that the guy who grabbed my map and set up a tuk tuk route for me on Wednesday was a random friendly local. He was in the same place on Thursday morning clearly on the lookout for tourists. I39m now pretty sure that the stop at the tailor shop was always going to be a part of my ride and that the guy at the Lucky Buddha who t

Another exciting day.. Did some laundry and then headed over to a huge RV show. We found our next RV Tradition 385RSS by Double Day. If we plan to do more trips like this one we have decided we need something just a little bit bigger. The salesman almost had Joe sold on a new truck and 5th wheel. I would have loved to have a bigger rig for this trip but didn39t want the cost that came along

In late April I decided that my favorite pair of shoes were getting really broken down and needed to be replaced. There are several Adidas stores in Zhuhai so I didnt think Id have a problem.Needless to say I had a problem.I didnt have any trouble getting to the Adidas store or finding shoes that I liked. Unfortunately the largest size the store carries is a ten. I need an eleven.I we

We all spent a morning with the subject of herbs used for medicinal purposes. Diana is a medical herbalist so is the perfect teacher. AP loved this part and has had an interest in the old ways of medicine for a long time.Many herbal remedies have been discovered over hundreds of generations of interaction between people and wild plants though much of this knowledge is now lost in the mainstream o

Post from MikeIt has been a little while since this has been updated so time for a mini pretrip post from the Calgary Airport as we wait to head back to TorontoWith great anticipation May 16th finally came around and Jess and I turned our Out of Office autoreplies on basically we will endeavour to reply to your message upon our return in August 2015 aka find someone else to do the meni

21 May Trip from Edinburgh to London was 4 12 hours....for us it seemed to go quickly maybe because there was only four stops York Darlington Newcastle Haymarket kings cross.There wasn39t a lot of scenery other than sheep greenery or these yellow flowers which I39m still trying to figure out..We arrived at Haymarket station and guess what I got confused and started walking the other

Upon waking up we made the decision to stay in St. John39s for one more night to really relax and take in some more of the city. We did some exercise today. We had almost forgotten what that felt like so got the jelly bellies a jiggling on a 2 hour hike and climb along a deathtrail that rounds Signal Hill atop extremely steep cliffs with end of your life drop offs. The hike was tough but su

Throughout the last 8 and a bit months we have done day by day exactly what we wanted to do. If we fancied visiting a temple we could if we fancied a beer at 12pm we could and if we wanted to do nothing more than spend all day in bed we could although we didn39t. It has been incredible to do that but for us we decided we needed to do something productive and a little more structures for a