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Another Day: June 2015
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Sunday, June 28, 2015. Entertaining Kids During Long Term Travel. Throughout a nine-month long journey around the world, you are bound to have some downtime. How do you best help your children manage that time in a way that helps them to be engaged with wherever you happen to be? Here are a few tips that helped keep a lid on mutinous thoughts over the course of those 275 days. We'll get over it. We're in Damascus. Let's make masks instead. That's part of the beauty of long term travel, having the time to...
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Another Day: A Moment in Time
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Friday, July 3, 2015. A Moment in Time. One of the pleasant surprises of travelling around the world was my discovery of how much I enjoy taking photographs. I originally planned to be taking photos in order to build a reference library for future drawings and paintings, but there were many, many times that I looked at a photo and thought, "That is just a wonderful piece of art," that needed no further intervention on my part. The Lotus Gate, Jaipur, India. A stubborn arch at Apamea, Syria. In a tiny lan...
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Another Day: Places Kids Will Love
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Monday, July 6, 2015. Places Kids Will Love. This is sort of a response to a "Where to take your kids" travel post. That I found through Nomadic Chica. The post was written by Eric Stoen, who has been all over the world, and by the sounds of it, a few times too. (He also has a logo that is eerily similar to what I used in a book a few years ago.). So with that in mind, here are some of the coolest and most fun places we went with our kids during our year off. Angkor in Cambodia would be my number on plac...
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Another Day: One photo!
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Sunday, July 5, 2015. One of the most enjoyable things about our experience in India was getting our picture taken with people. We'd be standing in line for something, and someone would run up and say, "One photo! We'd be walking down the street and we'd hear a voice call out, "Hello! Visiting a monument, "One photo! Looking in our guidebo- "One photo! You get the idea. Sometimes, that usual refrain was preceded with, "Oh, happy family! Anyone who first said, "Hello, massage? Was met with a grimace.).
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Another Day: June 2014
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Thursday, June 12, 2014. Royal Museum of Luang Prabang, Laos. Here's a story from our travels with a bit of a Portage connection. Give me the money now, then you'll get your receipt, joker. That's pretty funny, isn't it? Usually it's hard to be funny when it's 40 degrees outside, but this guy makes it seem so easy. It also goes to show how history continues to repeat itself. Denmark gave some nice stuff, Australia a boomerang, and some smart gold containers. Canada's gift to the monarchy? Then a walk tho...
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Another Day: June 2012
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012. How to Smuggle Your Knife into the Vatican Museums. From August 2, 2007. We managed to get ourselves lost while walking down to the central train station, but the good thing about getting lost in Rome is that it's just so darn fun. There's something interesting to see literally everywhere - down the street, across the street, in the trees. As we walked toward the bus, a slim man with stylish shoes and a large toothpick in his mouth jumped up and asked if we needed help. Suspic...
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Another Day: October 2012
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Just came off a very exciting weekend at Assiniboia Downs in the Manitoba Art Expo. Thousands of people came through the doors to see an extraordinary mix of visual art. It was very clear that people love to talk about travel, are mesmerized by large faces, and if I had had published copies of my book I'd be on the Canadian best seller list today. One person paged through all five hundred pages of the book, one page at a time. She is my new best friend. Trailer for our book!
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Another Day: December 2013
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Sunday, December 8, 2013. The Weekend is Over. Well, what a fantastic weekend that was. Close to a hundred people braved typical mid January temperatures (-30) in early December (normally -10) to take part in the 3rd South Osborne Arts Group studio tours. Lots of scarves and mitts and toques and fogged up glasses were on hand to enjoy a fun weekend of conversation and a glass of hot cranberry apple cider. Well, that is if they could enjoy those kinds of things, they certainly would have.
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Another Day: April 2013
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013. I'm heading over to the Tavern United tonight for the kickoff of the Winnipeg Timeraiser. One of my pieces was chosen as an auction item and tonight everyone is getting together to meet and learn a little more about one another. The Winnipeg Timeraiser is happening on May 30th. If you're looking for something to do with your volunteer time, check it out. Hence, time raiser. Monday, April 8, 2013. One of the interesting things about Winnipeg is our fascinating Exchange District.
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Another Day: The Slow Down
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Wednesday, July 15, 2015. A glimpse into the process of haggling, and inter-city travel. Page 118 from my book, The Great Year - India Edition, our last day in Khajuraho and then heading off to Varanasi. Click to see larger. As though commiserating with someone who recognized Laura’s deviousness. Then he quickly agreed and happily set to work assembling our purchases. Carrying on to the next page:. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Trailer for our book! Places Kids Will Love. A Moment in Time.
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