Category: Getting Outside
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Backroads Adventure; Harrison East to Boston Bar
I went for a backroads adventure motorcycle ride with a good buddy of mine. We were trying to ride up the east side of Harrison Lake before turning further east to go up and over the mountains that separate the lake from the Fraser Canyon. We left the burbs early Saturday morning for our backroads…
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My Farmhouse Kitchen Table Continues
I’ve made some progress on my farmhouse kitchen table. Perhaps most importantly, I’ve got the table and parts at home in my garage! As you can see, all the pieces are now glued together, cut to length, cut to width, and planed and sanded to the desired thickness. Did I show you how I took…
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The Rad Power Bike Rad Rover
I’ve had my new Rad Rover – my electric assisted bicycle – for a couple of weeks now and I have to say “I’m loving it!” This video is from the first couple of days of me riding and getting familiar with my Rad Rover. I now know that the red button on the right…
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PlayDome at BC Place
Good, innocent fun! That’s the best way I can describe my family’s experience at the PlayDome event in BC Place. All of the people working at Playdome were friendly and helpful. Many times the guys working the games encouraged my kids to try the games they were working – they’d say, “go ahead, it isn’t…
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Traveling the Scenic 7
Typically, when we travel to the interior of BC we avoid the freeway (Hwy 1) and we choose to travel via the Lougheed Hwy – the Scenic 7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTc-QbLQ8Fg It really is a beautiful drive and as I’ve aged, my driving habits have become much more like my Dad’s. He always talked about how a…
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My New Rad Power Bike
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A Dad in the Burbs Visits Monster Jam Vancouver
We did it. We went to the Monster Jam event in the Pacific Coliseum on Friday night and you know what, it was actually a really, really fun family event. Sure there were more guys with beards and neck tattoos than I’ve ever seen in one place, but there were also tons of families there…
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Monster Jam® Vancouver
While I drive around the city with my kids in one of the smallest cars on the road, my daughters have taken a fancy to trucks. Not just trucks like your regular SUV. Nope. They are wild about monster trucks like the kind we are going to see at the Vancouver Monster Jam®. So what…
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Weekend Trip to Vancouver Island
If you follow me on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter, you may already know that I spent this weekend in Victoria on Vancouver Island with my school’s basketball team. The highlight of the trip for me and our team was the behind the scenes tour of the BC Legislature that Keith Baldrey of Global TV graciously…
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What the Numbers of Vehicles Sold in Canada Tell Us
I was looking over the data for vehicle sales in Canada and the most interesting part of the data is that trucks seem to be the biggest sellers in Canada. In 2016 the top three vehicles sold in Canada were the Ford F-150, the Dodge Ram pick up truck, and the Honda Civic. The data…