Tag: Canada
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Price differences for the USA and Canada: Alcohol
Having lived in the US for over a decade there are quite a few cost of living differences I notice when I return to visit Canada. One of the more obvious differences between the two counties is the tr…
Short trip to Vancouver
Anna and I met up with family members to celebrate my Grandmother's 90th birthday. It was great to see everyone and enjoy the city. We were expecting rain, but instead had some gorgeous clouds and sun…
Trip to Yukon and Alaska
Photos of Yukon and Alaska I've finally gotten around to posting photos from our trip through Haines, Skagway, and Whitehorse in June/July. It was unseasonably cold, even for the north, but that didn'…
Diving Tyee Beach, Nanaimo BC
Photos for 2008.07.23 Diving Tyee Beach, Nanaimo, BC Randi and I both wanted to go diving on Vancouver Island, even though we weren't going to be there long. We had arranged to go out on a boat dive w…
Photos from BC travel
I'm so woefully behind on writing I'll just post photos for now. Photos for 2008.07.17-27 Central BC and Vancouver Island Photos for 2008.07.18-20 Memorial and Reunion, Horsefly
The city of my birth
(part of my notes from a few weeks ago) For my flight out of Williams Lake there is the same number of airport security people as there are passengers. Bored out of their minds, they took the opportun…
The biggest gas producer
NPR has an interesting story about trying to find the biggest greenhouse gas producer in the US . Canada makes that easy, they have a reporting system. But there is no mandatory reporting system in th…
Frosty trip
Anna and I traveled to frosty Canada late Nov and early Dec. Anna managed to survive -45C with a wind chill, and apparently my blood hasn't quite thinned to SoCal levels. The visit north was really gr…
Oh, Canada pt. 2
One thing I neglected to mention in my Oh Canada post about Harper, was his plans for Arctic defense . This would include three heavy-duty, armed icebreakers as well as a new port for them near Iqualu…
Oh, Canada.
Interesting things are happening up north . Harper & the conservatives ousted the liberals from power. Harper is now the PM, and Martin has stepped down. I thought Martin was doing a decent job, but h…