Hampton Inn & Suites Guelph, Ontario, Canada

When I last left my overly neglected travel blog, we hadn't even decided on a destination country. We were mightily torn between not doing a super resorty holiday and going full on resort. When we travel, we like to try to get into the cultures, to get a feel for the country as best we can. Hiding out at a resort doesn't really fit with that goa...

Suzanne and i sit at my messy flat contemplating the direction we may be headed with regards to a bike trip we have been consumed with for a few weeks now.I should point out that she neither has a bike nor has she actually taken a single test yet!!!!! We are still joyriding with the thoughts and possibilities.

For now the plan will be t...

Back to the Future – Back to the East

February again – firing up the blog. Loved my Eastern adventure so much last year that during the whole time back in Calgary I was figuring out how I might configure my life to repeat it. 2009 was definitely a year of change – a year of movement. For those of you who hear from me v...

Welcome to our 2009/10 travel blog.

During the next four months, Chris and I will try to post entries and photos on this site as
we travel first to Guatemala for 18 days and then to Ecuador for 3 months. I will try, yes, I will try if it is possible for me, to keep future entries shorter.

For us, keeping a blog is quite a ...

OUR 2009/10 ITINERARY

December 15, 2009 - fly to Guatemala City, stay at Hostal Los Volcanes overnight

December 16, 2009 - take the White Monkey bus to Coban where we will be picked up to go to the Escuela Ecocabana in San Juan Chamelco

December 24, 2009 - head to Panajachel on Lake Atitlan. Caitlin, Amy and Tim (CAT)...

3pm Thursday 10/9

Ok so today I had my first day of classes, just two lectures; theory of finance and public economics. Public economics sounds like it's going to be interesting but I’m worried that finance will be too easy and just going over things I have done already. There’s another course that’s called Introductio...

12.30pm Sunday 6/9

OK well it feels like ages since I was in Montreal but I will try and write about my last day there. I went to the Biodome first. It's what used to be the cycling centre for the Olympics so it’s shaped like a helmet, but now they’ve turned it into a nature habitat. Well actually its four habitats under the...

If there is anything better than the anticipatory excitement of embarking on a motorcycle trip I don't know what it is.

For the past 5 years my wife and I have been living and working in Asia. Barring the occasional typhoon and earthquake it’s not a bad gig, but all is not 'peaches and cream’ in the beautiful isla...

Hello everyone! Today is the day before we leave and we thought that we would send out our first travel entry while we are still at home and on a familiar computer. We do not anticipate having any problems finding internet cafés with speedy computers in Central America but Guatemala certainly will be a new experience for us. Hopefully, the websi...

Oh... I want to say I'm somewhere interesting - more for this website than the fact that I want to be anywhere other than my bed at my mom's house. We went to a movie tonight. When's the last time I was home on a Friday night? When's the last time I was alcohol free for a week straight? Yeah, the budget's tight and I'm over being drunk for a lit...