I’m on the road snaking north and east with the traffic. A bumper flies off a car traveling the opposite direction; it happens so fast that maybe it almost didn’t. And now there are deer. Four of them including a few horned bucks. Not too many points but too far away to tell. Can’t turn… Continue reading Toronto to Montreal to Toronto in 27 Hours
Category: Travel
San Francisco
I just got back from my second trip to San Francisco and Silicon Valley in two weeks. It’s been a whirlwind; some thoughts and photos. 0. Above all: I have the best wife in the world. We had our first child three days before I had to leave for the first trip and she still… Continue reading San Francisco
Hornby Island
Continuing this summer’s Gulf Islands theme, a few weeks back Wen and I went to Hornby Island. It’s a spectacular place: It’s also a place where the ’60s never died. Aging hippies sell $4 lattes and $3 baked samosas in the local market and then retreat to their $800,000 beach homes: The little touches are… Continue reading Hornby Island
Galiano Island
It hasn’t been much of a summer here in Vancouver and we’re learning that the best way to deal with it is to just get outside and do things. So on Saturday we got up early and went to Galiano Island. Due to the interminable fog, the view from the ferry wasn’t too great: When… Continue reading Galiano Island
Richmond
Richmond. It’s the Rodney Dangerfield of the Vancouver metropolitan area. A perfectly flat island on the flight path to the airport, it’s frequently derided as not worthy of a visit. In short, it can’t get no respect. Richmond is at least 60% Asian and the Golden Village feels closer to 100%. Since we moved to… Continue reading Richmond