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Mercado 28

In all our trips to Cancun, we’ve never hit their famous local market, Mercado 28. Maybe this year?

¶ Posted 26 December 2023 § Video ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Cuban Christmas (December 2015)

¶ Posted 21 December 2023 § Family § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, cute, holiday, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Hyatt Ziva Cancun (March 2019)

The only all-inclusive resort of the dozen or so we’ve stayed at that we’ve said we’d go back to. Absolutely stunning.

¶ Posted 16 November 2023 § MemoryLane § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, holiday, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Cuban Beach (March 2011)

¶ Posted 02 November 2023 § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: allinclusive, cute, holiday

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Sea Urgency (January 2012)

“Sea Urgency” instead of “Sea Urchin” is a malapropism that Sasha coined in Mexico but it applies for this picture taken during a snorkeling excursion in Hawaii in January 2012 long before she was born…

¶ Posted 29 June 2023 § Animals § Family § Humour § MemoryLane § Photo § Sasha § ThrowbackThursday ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cute, holiday, language, science

Submarine Billionaires

Not to mention the insane wastefulness of spending $250,000 for a five-minute glimpse of the Titanic. Imagine the good that money could’ve done otherwise. Or contrast the media attention and “all hands on deck” search and rescue operation which was basically guaranteed to be futile while boatloads of refugees are ignored completely. Guess what? I […]

¶ Posted 27 June 2023 § News § Politics § Wisdom ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: economics, history, science, travel

Throwback Thursday – #tbt – Bellagio Fountains (March 2009)

May have told this story before but my parents won a trip for two to Las Vegas and it happened to coincide with a week that Shea and I had booked off. So after a bit of chaos to get Pace (two going on three) a rush passport, we booked and ended up going along. […]

¶ Posted 22 June 2023 § MemoryLane § Pace § Photo § ThrowbackThursday § United States ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: cool, economics, holiday, travel

University of Western Ontario Is One of Only Twenty Universities Worldwide To Get Top Rating (And Only One in Canada)

I really thought my attending the University of Western Ontario might drag the rating down – yes, even nearly two decade later. But luckily UWO is still an extremely prestigious University even if they allow pretenders like myself to darken their halls.