Posts Tagged With "travel"

Caribbean Cruising, Rants, Reviews & Redux – Part Two

travel & holidays 

[18 Mar 02013 | 335 views | 8 minutes of your time ]

I’m imagining that if a general poll was taken of average folks around the world, beaches would rank pretty high on the “things people love” scale.

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100 Things: Rockets, Rides & Random Space Junk

fatherhood | skepdad | travel & holidays 

[18 Feb 02013 | 363 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

A few months ago we booked a cruise vacation leaving from Port Canaveral, Florida, a little chunk of land that is in booster-exhaust-sniffing range of one Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.

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Unplugged on Vacation

technology | travel & holidays 

[8 Feb 02013 | 335 views | 2 minutes of your time ]

We’ve been doing a lot of thinking and planning for an upcoming vacation, and one of the things I’ve seriously considered doing is leaving my phone at home.

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Grande Prairie Road Trip

travel & holidays 

[3 Sep 02012 | 390 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

September (and the labour day long weekend) arrived and we found ourselves making the six hour drive North to Grande Prairie, Alberta for some family-related adventures. As it turns out, last month Karin’s grandfather hit one of those epic age-link milestones …

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Reloaded: Back to Slacker Edition

technology | travel & holidays 

[31 Jul 02012 | 253 views | 6 minutes of your time ]

I\’ve been slacking. I mean, we had such grand plans. We set aside a week in late-July for some family togetherness (for better or for worse) months previous. The idea was a mid-summer break, a bit of travel, and some well-needed down-time. Or…

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5 Side Effects of Travelling That Benefit Web Design

informology | travel & holidays 

[24 Jul 02012 | 493 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

Another day of stay-cation, another “week of lists” posts about vacations. This time around I thought I would explore the topic of my profession (web architecture and information management) in the context of what can be learned while travelling.   Of course, …

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7 Kinds of Autobiographical Blog Posts

blogger | meta & methods | writing 

[25 May 02012 | 798 views | 7 minutes of your time ]

My first ever “week of lists” wraps to a close and I’m going to give you yet another navel-gazing meta-style post about blogging — because, if for no other reason, there is a lot of bad blogging advice out there. See, the …

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Reloaded: Later in August

critters | home & garden | life happens | work & business 

[24 Aug 02011 | 317 views | 5 minutes of your time ]

A “reloaded” post is a quick-clipped summary of a bunch of small things from the past few days. I want to write them down, but I am either lacking in (a) details or (b) time. That’s just how it goes sometimes. …

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Moonwalker Forty-Two

fatherhood | scientist & skeptic | skepdad 

[20 Jul 02011 | 1,563 views | 3 minutes of your time ]

A day involving news about space travel, the moon, and the number 42. That’s my kinda story.
Or, at least, that is to say, forty-two years ago today the Apollo 11 moon mission touched down in the Sea of Tranquillity on the …

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