Rachelle and I are planning a 3-week road trip to the Pacific Northwest (USA and Canada). We’ll be leaving from Las Vegas sometime next week. We’ll begin by driving north to Reno, then west through Sacramento to San Francisco, north to Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, and east to Calgary. Rachelle will be doing her play in [...]

This is a final wrap-up post about my Canada trip. First I’ll share some details about the last leg of the trip (Toronto), and then I’ll share some overall travel lessons to broaden the perspective. After 3 weeks in Canada, I flew back to Las Vegas from Toronto on July 6th. Overall this was an amazing [...]

This post is about our Toronto meet-up, so if you don’t live in or near Toronto — or if you have no desire to go outside in this humid weather — you can safely ignore it. Meet-up Details Our Toronto meet-up will be this Sunday, July 4th, at 5pm. The location will be in Queen’s [...]

On Monday Rachelle and I drove from London, Ontario, to Toronto. We’re currently staying in a house in the downtown Toronto area, within walking distance of the University of Toronto. We arrived the day after G20 ended, so we didn’t have any issues with that. Final Days in London It seems that regardless of how [...]

I finally have some time for another update on my Canada travels, so here goes… Montreal I really enjoyed my stay in Montreal, which I found to be a very sensuous city. There’s so much to take in with the senses, including much beauty to behold (some natural, some manmade), delicious foods to enjoy, and [...]

For the next 3 weeks, I’m embarking on a trip through Eastern Canada, visiting Montreal, London, and Toronto. (That’s London in Ontario, not London in the UK.) I expect to blog about this trip along the way, so if you have no interest in reading about it, simply skip those posts. They’ll be easy enough [...]