Category Archives: travel
way down upon the Suwannee River
I’m in Georgia for NCAA Women’s Gymnastics Championships. By coincidence, I’m staying in the small town of Suwannee, GA.
Here’s Suwanee City Hall.
Tomorrow morning I’ll run the Suwanee Creek Greenway.
… Way down upon de Swanee Ribber,
Far, far away, …
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Iowa for Easter
I find myself in Des Moines (the Monks) Iowa on Easter Sunday. Very green, quiet and clean.
Here’s the Iowa State Capitol.
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… hmm.
I often don’t like slideshows on the internet. But this slideshow interface looks OK. Leave a comment if you’ve an opinion.
related – Des Moines is NOT Boring
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beautiful Regina
We’ve had amazingly good weather since I moved to Regina, Saskatchewan. I’ve been bragging.
But we did have some … days in March.
Here was the scene close to where I work.
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Clossons in Thailand
Kim and Karen continue their family world tour. On a quiet Thai island they had free internet, catching us up on the travelogue:
… Koh Lanta is on the west coast of Thailand, about 70 kilometers from Krabi bordering the Andaman Sea. The temperature was between 35 -40 degrees daily, … the sea temperature was between 26 – 28 degrees so it wasn’t as cool and refreshing as you needed at times. The island only has 20,000 people
… The agenda was pretty simple: Planning for the rest of the trip, swimming, drinking pineapple shakes and watching some of the best sunsets I have ever seen while eating supper at the beach restaurants.
There is not too much to do on Koh Lanta and needless to say, we found it very relaxing and reflective and we enjoyed the down time before we ramp up for India, Jordan and Egypt.
We did do a snorkeling day trip to Koh Rok, a small island 45 minutes away. We snorkeled at 3 different places and enjoyed lunch on the island. There were big monitor lizards lounging around the lunch tables, waiting for scraps. It was this islands version of a begging dog. …
Monitor Lizard ??
101 Places Not to See Before You Die
Kate Zimmerman recommends:
… the 2010 book 101 Places Not to See Before You Die, by Catherine Price. Price says in her introduction that she wrote this amusing guide as an antidote to all the other advice out there re: primo activities.
Number one on her list of what not to see is Missoula, Montana’s Testicle Festival, where 15,000 people gather every year to munch on the bull calf testicles euphemistically known as “Rocky Mountain oysters.” Apparently the event also features a game called Bull—- Bingo, where somebody wins money every time a bull lays a turd down on a giant bingo card. There must be something wrong with me – this actually sounds like a good time. …
read more – And here’s me without even a bucket
Other winning entries include: “A Vomitorium”, or being stuck on “The Top of Mount Washington in A Snowstorm”, or landing on “Jupiter’s Worst Moon”
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view from the Penthouse
Morning after the Great West Gym Fest we enjoyed some luxury time up in the Coeur d’Alene Resort Penthouse.
Lisa organized in-suite massage and facial treatments.
The wealthy are not like you and me. They hot tub with vistas like this …
Back at the Adlard’s Candle in the Woods log house, I got 12hrs of sleep. Catching up for some short nights during the meet.
I chased Dave around the back roads one afternoon.
more post Gym Fest photos
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Garmin nüvi 3790T GPS
My Dad just bought a Garmin nüvi 3790T 4.3-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator with Lifetime Traffic
It’s an extra $100 for Voice Command with this model.
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Watch the CNET review.
Voice Command is cool, but works very inconsistently. I can’t recommend it.
The device comes with a windshield mount. That came loose within the first few days. Dad may need to buy a second Friction Mount, $40 plus tax in Canada.
Despite the problems, Dad likes it.
The user interface is far simplified and improved over the many GPS “fish finders” he’s used in boats over the years.
visiting Reg on Vancouver Island
Reg took my Dad and I out to lunch at The Shipyard, Maple Bay.
On a sunny February day, we toured the Marina.
Next we drove down the road to Genoa Bay.
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why am I running?
For some bizarre reason — lately — I’ve been “running” for up to 2hrs, several times / week. Must be endorphins.
I jog most of the time. Listening to my book on audio. And stopping frequently to take photos.
One of the best days was at Englishman River Falls Provincial Park near my parent’s place in Parksville, B.C.
Turns out ‘winter’ in the Pacific N.W. is beautiful.
