Category Archives: travel

Virgin America to Los Cabos and Cancun CHEAP

September 1, 2010 – 11:46 am

I need to get to Cabo for some dental work. hmm … … fights from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to Los Cabos start Dec. 16, 2010, and flights from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to Cancun will start Jan. 19, 2011. …. Virgin America announces nonstop flights to Los Cabos and Cancun from $129

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home at last …

August 31, 2010 – 6:54 pm

Land of Timmies.

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DOH – car breakdown in Montana

August 30, 2010 – 12:15 pm

My car is fixed, for now. About $500 total. The guys finished the repair just before closing. ____ original post: I was half hoping my old Honda would break down in Vegas. … Have it towed to the auto wrecker. Fly home to Calgary. Simple. For my $1600 initial cost, I didn’t expect it to [...]

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tire flies off boat trailer … I’m not nearly killed

August 22, 2010 – 9:13 am

You know those videos of tires flying off vehicles wrecking havoc? I saw one yesterday. I was driving near Searchlight, Nevada on a bleak desert highway. Temperature near 170 degrees F. The vehicle in front of me was towing a boat. In front of my eyes the wheel broke off, rolling full-speed along the ditch. [...]

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swimming pool with 200m drop

August 22, 2010 – 5:02 am

marina bay sands skypark (Singapore)

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breast cancer survivors can fly

August 20, 2010 – 9:35 pm

University of Alberta researcher Margie McNeely says results from an international study she was part of indicate that certain precautions about the risk of lymphedema for breast cancer survivors are outdated. … McNeely says women who’ve had breast cancer surgery are often warned that pressure changes in an airplane cabin could trigger lymphedema, chronic swelling [...]

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cycling Crested Butte, Colorado

August 20, 2010 – 5:08 am

I could live in Crested Butte, my favourite American Rockies town, a mecca for skiing and mountain biking. The hostel is the best in Colorado, … so says Lonely Planet. It is awesome. Between afternoon thunder showers I did a warm-up ride on the Snodgrass. Gageesh! It was tough. I was sucking wind at high [...]

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Keiran on the Slickrock Trail

August 8, 2010 – 8:14 am

From the Facebook album: Dying in the heat The Slickrock Trail, located near Moab, Utah (USA), is a popular mountain biking destination with worldwide fame. This 10.5-mile (16.9 km) loop takes intrepid riders over a landscape of “petrified” sand dunes and the eroded remnants of ancient sea beds. The Slickrock Trail is one of the [...]

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Jon Glaser in Singapore

August 4, 2010 – 5:03 am

Kaela and Jonathan have a blog: Rasa Yang Tidak Biasa They are staging for a tour of Asia. Awesome. Thanks Jude.

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Mt. Rainier adventures …

August 4, 2010 – 5:02 am

My first trip to the biggest volcano in the continental USA. … Although Mount Rainier is an active volcano, as of 2010 there was no evidence of an imminent eruption. However, an eruption could be devastating for all areas surrounding the volcano … … a mudflow might also reach down the Duwamish estuary and destroy [...]

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