Canadian Thanksgiving is on the first Monday of October. This is when my wife’s family gets together out at their acreage to enjoy family camaraderie and at the end of Thanksgiving night a random bowl is brought around to everyone whose present and they draw names. The name drawn becomes the person whom you are…
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Pre-Travel Essentials, What Do You Do Before Departing?
Literally every person, I have ever met in Canada, outside of Canada, around North America, in South Korea, Australia, Costa Rica and even Ireland. We all have our own pre-flight routine before traveling, anywhere. This does not matter whether the person is about to drive to seven hours to grandma’s house for Thanksgiving, or head down…
Counting Down to the 2020 Road Trip to Southern British Columbia, Canada
The itinerary lists will be pulled out of their well hidden areas within our desks in order to have our pens touch the paper and write out the fundamental lists of what is required for a well-deserved two week holiday into Southern British Columbia, Canada. In approximately seventeen hours the two of us will arrive…
Shocker … its September Long Weekend! and a Plan for Next Month
Sometime this weekend the wife looked over her cup of coffee smiled and says “hey do you want to take a road trip with me?” Starring at the pages in my hands I looked up shaking my head side to side when she replied before I, “are you saying no to a road trip?” I…
An Easter Feast at the Parents House
“Come on hurry. We are going to be late!,” she said dragging her towel off her head, “you’re going to make us late again.” “Sorry, I just need to save what I am doing and shutdown the computer. We wont be late, just later than we anticipated our arrival to be. It’ll be okay,” came…
Canada Celebrates 150 Years
Upon entering Cafe Sorrentino’s Bar & Bistro on the southern edge of town, the hostess asked where we would like to sit? The consensus was the patio. We were seated and eventually we had dinner consisting of one Gluten-free five mushroom pizza with arugula, tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese, and one Gluten-free mediterranean pasta with…
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