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For pretty much forever, I had 3 bucket-list things to do in Hawaii. The first, and perhaps the prompt for the other 2, was to watch the sun rise from the summit of Haleakala. That was accomplished in May 1972, a few days after getting married in the old...

This was the first visit to Kauai for both Cathy and I, and since we booked the cruise I’d been dreaming of doing a bucket-list flight along the Na Pali coast. Cathy booked us with Ali’i Air Tours, in a Robinson R44 with the doors off. She was only...

Imagine living in a small community – 3,600 or so residents – which has great music venues, bars, and restaurants, a spa and many other facilities. Now imagine that in that community, you’re one of the 2,600 people that are retired, and the other 1,000 residents do all the...

I don’t know why it’s done, but as with our Hawaii cruise in 2013, we made a detour to spend a day in Astoria, Oregon. This post isn’t going to tell you much about Astoria, but on the 2013 visit I spent a very busy day exploring – see...

We’re now on Day 8 of this trip, which features a 17-night cruise from Vancouver to Hawaii and back on Holland America’s Koningsdam. Often we book trips at least a year ahead but we just decided about 3 months ago to book this, after a lot of discussion about...

My regular readers will have noticed that I didn’t go very far from home this past summer. What began as a simple (but very expensive) replacement of our complete septic system turned into a major landscaping project which lasted the entire season. The main component of the landscaping is...

I found these graphics this morning in a Facebook post from 4 years ago. I’m posting this so I have it handy, because these are important poses and stretches to keep your body working correctly – I’ve used many but keep forgetting about them. I need a poster, but...

I’ve started a couple of blog posts since my last one but have been unable to complete them and finally gave up on each and deleted them. Maybe I can finish this one. Although we haven’t had any hard frosts yet and daytime highs are still 10-12°C, Fall is...

Each summer, Cathy and I try to have one special day tucked away to remember when it’s 40 below zero – Sunday, August 27th will be that day this year. The fireweed on our property are the first of the Fall colours to get photo-worthy, but others won’t be...

On August 26 I drove to Carcross for an event arranged by COPA (the Canadian Owner and Pilots Association, Yukon Flight 106) and the Klondike Cruisers car club. For the Cruisers, there was a poker run which started at the Yukon Transportation Museum, with numerous stops on the way...