I spent a few days catching up with my long time friend. Staying with his family.
Mike and I hadn’t seen each other in over 20 years.
Having lived and taught in many nations, Mike has settled down. An artist, they live not far from the Prado.
This kid – Mike’s newphew – has been thrashing me at various games over the weekend. 🙂
From Madrid I’ll travel southern Spain for a couple of weeks before flying out to Scotland October 18th.
Pre-dawn start under the Lion’s Gate Bridge. He seemed to enjoy watching salmon leap out of the water right under his nose. 🙂
One of the great treats of the left coast City is a picnic on the beach.
Rocco and Maureen were visiting …
… so I showed up. 🙂
Sunday nights Spanish Banks drum circle.
Off-leash dogs are welcome here.
The best photos were taken by Rockin’ Ronnie.
Thanks Brion and Betsy for hosting. I had a great time hiking and biking out of your mountain town.
We met in Nepal 2013 trekking the Manaslu Circuit.
Since then they’ve added a new hiker to the family. 🙂
After our spiritual leader – Blill – led our hiking group down from Manzanita hut to civilization, we had 2 extra days on a B.C. hiking holiday.
What to do?
We decided to rent kayaks on Okeover inlet and paddle into the Marine Park. It was inexpensive. C$31 each for an assortment of fibreglass and plastic singles and doubles.
The weather on the water was fantastic. Very calm.
When it got too hot – needless to say – water fights broke out.
This area is known for Oyster farms.
One oddity was seeing a deer in the salt water. It needed salt, we assumed.
See the full resolution photos on flickr.
Another great visit with Doug, Diana and the Tumbl Trak extended family.
My friend Dean Kalyan and his family are really into sport, music, photography and videography.
A collection of images shot and produced by Kalyan Studios in the past year.
Click PLAY or watch some of their quirky, personal work on Vimeo.
If you need a video made contact info (a) kalyanstudios.com
This performance group looks … familiar. 🙂
photo credit Warren Long
VB Highschool in Calgary is no more. It’s now something called Chinook College.
Brian Mason’s VBreunion.com website no longer works, either. But you can still see what it looked like by searching for “vbreunion.com” on the internet archive wayback machine.
If you attended Viscount Bennett, as I did, you could join the Viscount Bennett High School Alumni Facebook page.
For the 3rd year in a row I crashed the New Year’s Eve celebrations at the Adlards in northern Idaho.
For a change, they got a LOT of snow this season.
Their log cabin in the woods looks like one of those Christmas shops. Very festive.
Here’s where Dave works online. 🙂
Dave got a new barbecue for Christmas. Whoop whoop!
Delaney got new snowshoes.
And there’s a new playhouse in the back yard.
The no excuses 10km run went well for me again.
I finished 2nd behind Andy this year, just ahead of Dr. Jeni, my best finish ever.
Andy put on a burst of speed uphill to finish first. Something was motivating him. I can’t imagine what he was thinking about.
Thanks to Dave, Lisa and 5yr-old Delaney for hosting. 🙂
Rick McCharles 