UMTravels

Oh dear, I’ve lost track of time up here in Canadaland. How many days have I been here? How many more days do I have? Today’s photo is of this seriously tricked out Land Rover Defender that parks across the street from the WorldMark: The thing on the top is a South African Safari Tent [...]

Lots of email back and forth this morning with Jill… with the subject line “Shit”. The Victoria Clipper IV was having overheating problems and a full boat of passengers…. 35 minutes out they turned around. By 10am they were headed back north, but at a lower speed. Turned the normal 2 hours 45 minute trip [...]

Up at 6am to be out of the condo at 7am and onto a train at 8am. If Jill hadn’t been coming in I would have taken the Sunday train which goes at a much more respectable hour of 10am (though it returns at 8pm rather than 6pm). The single car train (is that even [...]

Here is the view from my temporary office… That would be the Victoria Clipper IV in the background, headed back to Seattle. That would mean that it was taken at a little after 5pm. Today was a walking day… to the train station to see how long it will take in the morning (I’ll be [...]

A lazy morning of eating, working, doing a shopping run. Today’s video will probably only be of interest to me… some early inside shots of the Boeing 787 including the crew rest area (which you never get to see). And the other news of the afternoon is that I’ve finally found someone to go to [...]

Up at 4:30am… laid in bed until 5am… was still cranky after coffee and leaving the house at 5:45am to go leave the mommy van at the apartment and catch the 6:45am waterfront bus. I hate early mornings. But there is only one ferry in each direction to Victoria this time of year. That would [...]

Morning sucked up with the (now for me) bi-weekly marketing meeting. Swanda called in from the car on the way to the Grand Canyon — he’s on his “I must visit ten places I haven’t been before” tour to knock off five of them… Las Vegas, Hoover Dam, Palm Springs, the Grand Canyon, and some [...]

OK — I couldn’t help the pun. Suit. Suite. But the highlight of the day is a cocktail party in the Nimbus Suite at the Camlin in Seattle. At the Camlin, all the suites are on the 11th floor, home of the Cloud Room years ago — I have fond memories of listening to whiskey [...]