Road trip! A small semi-road trip, but a road trip day none-the-less. Big White was our destination. It was time to check on our place at the mountain. My first problem I faced was getting my darling daughter out of bed and in the truck with me for the trip. Read more…
Wow! We are at the end of April! The strangest April of my life. The strangest April of all our lives. It has been a good month to stay at home and de-clutter our lives. Yard work, gardening, everyone seems to be outside and getting things done. Luckily the weather Read more…
I have written an entry a day for thirty-six days. Thirty-six days of my observations, my adventures, such as they have been, in the coronaverse. Things have really settled down and we can sense that people have adapted; a new normal is being created. I turned the TV on; our Read more…
Our world is adapting and connecting in this time of pandemic. Pandemic does sound like panic. The panic stage has ended and we all are ready for things to go back to a more normal situation. Dr Tam says full normal is still a long ways off. Opening things up Read more…
Our motorbike ride yesterday was a fulfilling trip that made me remember why I love riding so much. When we got home we walked into a strange odour. Further investigation made us think the smell was septic. I looked in the storage room where the smell was strongest and thought Read more…
Sunday again, I feel like I am tracking life on the number of Sundays since time stood still. Time can’t stand still no matter how much we would want it to. Time is the most precious thing we experience and yet none of us can truly own it. I never Read more…
After yesterday’s adventure I was ready to hang low and stay home today. I made my wife a gourmet breakfast; scrambled eggs with chorizo. I have often thought about starting a actual bed and breakfast. Krista thinks I’m crazy. I’m a pretty good cook so I think it would be Read more…
My day really started at three-o’clock in the morning. Sleep was eluding me and my mind was racing. I knew I had to go to Vancouver today. I was feeling a mixture of emotions: excitement for a road trip, trepidation about leaving home, and a feeling of release because I Read more…
March 23 we closed the condo at Big White and prepared to leave the mountain for the last time. That was not the way we thought the season would end. We were having one of the best ski seasons in memory. Over 300 cm of snow base, I had 42 Read more…
Yesterday it started, The Netherlands announced no getting together until August 31. I have known for a while we probably weren’t going to go to Europe in June for our celebratory adventure. Today the reality struck like a hammer on an anvil. I awoke to an email from AirBNB; our Read more…