The Coast
A trip to Vancouver Island is always interesting, especially for a bunch of Prairie Gophers.
Click on the displaced Flatlanders for details.
Riding the Sky on a Lawnmower
My lawnmower was responsible for taking me on a powerless flight over the foothills yesterday.
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Do it in Cake
Cake tastes better than pavement, and other things I learned today.
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Timbuktu and Tuktoyaktuk
We are considering a couple of winter holiday ideas.
Click on your preference, and we can chat about it.
Gin-Scented Tears
This is a working telephone. I keep it as a reminder of better days in the telecommunications industry.
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Hate, or Hard Work
When you sleep with an elephant and that animal cocks its leg to fart, you have a right, indeed an obligation, to register an objection.
Click on the pachyderm for a long-winded warning.
An Edible Dormouse
Dormice aren’t really mice, technically they are squirrels, but I still wouldn’t eat one.
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Tough, and Reliable
Never take a rubber mallet to a fist fight, and other things we learned in Velden am Wörthersee.
Click on either pistol for a full run-down….
Pork Chops
The biggest pig I have ever seen in my life came loping out of the ditch and crossed the road.
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Until László Returns
“The English Patient” might have the most tragic ending in all of cinema.
Click on László Almásy’s passport photo for details.
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At the Bottom of the Atlantic (revised)
The red dot on this map is where the S/S Danmark sank in 1889. My Danish great-grandfather was aboard that ship. Fred Bekker survived the ordeal and spent time on the Azores Islands... Read more
