Category Archives: Travel

I am tired

Weird thing.  Every January I see to get REALLY tired and a little sick.  Generally, it takes two or three days for me to sleep through it and then I am good for a year.  I either have to manage my time better, have some sort of circadian rythm deficiency in January or I need to take more holidays.   I am going to pick the vacation reason just because that is what I feel like.

Now, what to do on vacation?  I could book a trip south somewhere like I have done in the past three years, but last March’s separation leaves me without a partner in crime.  This begs a few questions.  Do I try to get a friend to come with me and hope I don’t book during gay week?  Though that may be fun, but I am not gay (not that there’s anything wrong with that!) and don’t know how long I would get along being south without at least SOME bikini clad girls to ogle.

Maybe I just need a nap…

More to come!

Stay interested and interesting!

John

Not Enough Pictures!

I know I don’t put a lot of pictures up.  For the teeming masses, here are a few…

The image gallery thing on WordPress is a little weird. So is the GUI. Good thing there is an option to just insert HTML code and I can still remember it!  I am still working out the kinks…  Hope this works!  😉

Stay interested and interesting!

John

Cross border is fun!

I went to the United States of America (USA! USA! USA!) yesterday for a little shopping.  Even with the Canadian dollar close to par, there are still HUGE savings to be had.  It seems that we are still being gouged in Canada, even if the pretense of the exchange rate USED to be the excuse and it no longer holds water.  What could the excuse be now?

To be sure, the size in markets in very different.  There are ten times more people in the USA and a much more entrepreneurial spirit that makes competition flourish and lowers prices for the consumer.  I am glad we have such a neighbour within an hour’s drive!  🙂

The most fun is getting to the border and going through without having to stop and pay GST on everything, except the children’s clothes.  We got through very quickly and efficiently.  I was quite proud of the border services agent I got yesterday.  Bravo!

I know I will post more about my travels in the future and may even include some pictures.

Stay interested and interesting!

John