Category Archives: Travel

The Economic Impacts of Covid-19

This is a British article but many of the findings are going to apply for countries around the world – from increased unemployment to reduced airline traffic to positive environmental impacts and more.

Five Reasons We’re Happy to Be Camping During COVID

As mentioned previously, Shea and I are looking forward to camping this summer as much as possible.  Thinking about the Covid world we live in, there are a few reasons why we’re happy this is our hobby! If our summer plans included a trip to BC or Alberta or other out-of-province destinations, we’d have all […]

Saturday Snap – Our New Camper (2018 Forest River Cherokee Grey Wolf)

Shea and I had been tossing around the idea of upgrading to a bigger camper for a couple years but Covid sort of forced our hand this year. The initial restrictions for campgrounds included the fact that bathrooms would be closed and people would only be allowed to use their own camper’s facilities. Our rPod […]

Man Living Off-Grid In A Tent On An Island

If this whole COVID-thing gets *really* shitty, I can at least dream that this was an option for me as the marauding hordes stab me to death for my last sheet of toilet paper. 🙁

Saturday Snap – Last Pre-Quarantine Photo (and My Personal Covid Timeline/Photo Essay)

There’s a challenge on social media to post the last picture on your camera roll before you entered quarantine. I thought I’d take that challenge but go a step further to post a few photos and significant dates from my own personal COVID timeline… My Personal COVID Timeline Late November – early December 2019 COVID […]

Some Quick Thoughts On The End of The World

Coronavirus I was in a meeting tonight and in the course of about an hour, my phone buzzed to tell me that: 1) Trump was going to start heavily restricting travel from Europe to US; 2) the NBA was cancelling their season; and 3) Tom Hanks and his wife have the disease.  It’s a wild, […]

My Review of Crown Paradise Club Cancun

We just returned from a week at the Crown Paradise Club Cancun so I wanted to write a review of our resort while the memories are still fresh. HOW WE ENDED UP CHOOSING THE CROWN PARADISE CANCUN IN THE FIRST PLACE Having bought a house in the late fall, our streak of visiting an all-inclusive […]

Saturday Snap – My Own Corona Virus

This was my view one week ago today. I admit that I was a bit nervous heading to the airport the next day as the Coronavirus seemed to blow up big (in news coverage if not actual cases) during out week in Mexico but our flight went ahead so, (un)fortunately, we weren’t stranded in Cancun! […]

Friday Fun Link – British vs. Canadian English

I still tell the story of the woman I traveled to England with for a University exchange in 1995 meeting a group of people in a pub and saying she hadn’t changed her pants in days. Turns out trousers are pants in England and pants are underwear! 🙂

Five Reasons To Stay At A Cheaper All-Inclusive Resort (And Five Reasons Not To)

Shea and I weren’t sure if we could afford an all-inclusive holiday this winter after buying a new house last fall. But we decided that if we booked a much cheaper resort than some of the high-end places we’ve stayed at in previous years (we paid almost half what we did last year!), we should […]