What a year – I’m just back from Whistler for my third time this year! I was in Whistler with my team at work – or 6 of us from…
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Vancouver Trip – AC/DC, Whistler, and more!
We’re just back from a trip to Vancouver and it was perfect in every way! We had to drive down to Whitehorse to leave Hank in a boarding kennel, so…
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My cousin Patrick’s wedding
I’ve been slow to blog about my recent trip to Ontario! I’m sorry! This time I didn’t take a million pictures and lived a little more in the moment, but…
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Petaluma, California
Last Saturday, Jeff and his friend Ray were already out on their hunting expedition. I packed for my trip to California, took one last hike with Hank, had a last…
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Video recap of our expedition
We didn’t purposely make a video of our trip down the Yukon River, but I used Apple’s Live Photo feature on my iPhone so I had hundreds of ~2 second…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Six
Oh boy, what a morning face! We slept in, until almost 7! It was a good sleep, well, on and off. My air mattress didn’t hit the magic perfect density…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Five
I was up at 4am to pee so I pulled the fly off the tent and released all the flies! I thought this was a genius, but they still all…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Four
What a wonderful sleep I had! Finally! I can’t even explain why, but I felt safer here, more comfortable and relaxed. Maybe it was because we could hear trucks from…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Three
We got up at 6am. Jeff had been awake for awhile and said he heard a moose out in the swampy river behind our high perched site. I was so…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day Two
We were up at 5am. It was a hot night when we crawled into the tent the night before, but we both woke up under our sleeping bags so it…
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Yukon River Expedition – Day One
Last Saturday we departed on a multi-day expedition to travel the Yukon River from Whitehorse to Dawson City by boat. 740 km / 460 miles. I’m not going to call…
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May 2-4 in Ontario!
I flew into Toronto a week early for Grandma’s funeral, because the summertime Air North flight through Yellowknife is so much nicer than flying through Vancouver (and usually needing to…
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Reflecting on our Florida vacation
On our final morning in Florida, we returned the rental car and checked-in for our flight. Our flight was delayed for a few hours and they had rebooked us on…
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Sanibel Island
We woke up on Tuesday morning in Fort Meyers at the Holiday Inn and peeked out the blinds to see a beautiful day! We enjoyed our free breakfast at the…
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The Daytona 500
Yeah, you caught my hints earlier, didn’t you!? We bought tickets for NASCAR’s Daytona 500! The superspeedway race, on the 2.5 mile track, with the restrictor plates and the draft…
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A rainy Saturday at Universal
You just haven’t lived until you spend a day in the rain at an amusement park. It was Saturday and it was raining. But we went ALL IN and updated…
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Disney World
We had 3 days planned for the amusement parks, and we had already bought 2 days passes for Universal. For the other day we decided we needed to see the…
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We went to FLORIDA!
When your friends claim they need a trip to Disney World to get away for awhile and ask if you are interested, you’d be a crazy fool to say ‘no’,…
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Vacation Thoughts
I need to save these travel notes so I can reflect down the road as the logistics details fade. What a fabulous vacation! Why don’t we do this more often!?…
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Back to Denver
It was Friday morning and time to start heading back to Denver. Our first flight leading us home was on Saturday morning. One of my team leads and his wife,…
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