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May 2012 - Bahamas from Port Canaveral still to come.
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Quote of the Month
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -- the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful sounds and interesting people. Forget yourself."
Henry Miller, 1891-1980
Features and Headlines:
Vail and Denver, March 2012- Nothing like Colorado, Vail and Denver.
Whistler, Victoria, Blaine, 2011 - Don't miss this write up and the beautiful photos! Everyone should do this for Thanksgiving.
Istock Portfolio - 97 and growing.
Recent Photos:
Thin Blue Line Ride - A fun ride for a great cause.
Vail and Denver, Colorado - A little spring skiing and downtown Denver.
Whistler, Victoria, Blaine - Thanksgiving weekend 2011 photos.
Entertainment:
Movie Reviews - Three Stooges, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Book Reviews - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played With Fire
Miami and Bahamas, December 2011 - A fun 4 day cruise and a night in Miami, what fun.
October 2011 - A recap of October in photos, no big news update until next month, then look for Victoria, BC information and a mini Bahamas cruise.
Fall Fun - A Fall Hike and Fall Fairs
Winthrop Lakeview Disc Golf Course- An overview of the course.
Winthrop Lakeview Disc Golf Course - An album of the course, may add more photos later.
Summer 2011- Weddings, Disney, parks etc. All the fun in the news.
Midland First Annual Ace Race- Who won, how did it play, when's the next? Come read the details.
Midland Ace Race- Link for next years updates.
Mississippi - Tupelo, Memphis, Elvis Presley, Beale Street, Tunica, - Just fun, check it out.
Mississippi Photos- Beale St., Memphis, Graceland, Elvis Presley Park, Tupelo.
Tunica Photos- Tunica Riverpark airboat ride, and the evil Sam's Town employee.
Chattanooga -- Great Food, Waterfront Festivals and Fun - A fun place to visit.
Chattanooga, TN- A few water front photos in Chattanooga.
New Orleans and Biloxi Bound. - First Long weekend of the season, getaway. News and photos.
New Orleans and Biloxi Photos- Sites around New Orleans and Biloxi.
Fun at Maxton, NC - Land Speed Trials - ECTA - Details from the May 2011 meet.
Maxton Photos on Flicker - Find yourself or car from Maxton, NC, May ECTA meet up. Email for prints or high quality digitals.
Pink Slips Women's Car Club Photo Shoots - Car buffs check this story and VOTE for Sally...
Pink Slips LMC Photo Album- Photos from the day at Legendary Motorcar Company
Riverbanks Zoo Photos - An afternoon at the zoo.
Summit County, CO. - Quick update, on the Summit county Bears gathering..
Castle Mountain Photo Album - Lots of ski, scenery and friend shots. Find yourself.
Castle Mountain Winter - Friends, fun and work. - All the details, slide show and photo album.
Warning, HHGregg Return? - Read and be wary; features update.
Houston and Area - Houston, Galveston and the Gulf coast, what to do with 4 days in the area.
October in the Carolinas - Myrtle Beach new, Fort Fisher Ferry fun, York Fall Festival.-------Slide Show here too.
Fall Colours- Blue Ridge Parkway fall colours on Flicker
Victoria, Whistler, Whale Watching, - Finally added the details on a terrific spring vacation to go with the photo album I uploaded in the spring.
Port Dover, Friday 13th Ride In - Photos of the Port Dover Ride in.
Victoria, Whale Watching, Whistler - Complete pictures from my whale watching excursion in Victoria, BC, and the rest.
7 Days 4 Resorts, Utah, Big Mountain Fun - Salt Lake city Utah, a great place for skiers. Check it out.
It's Better in the Bahamas - 4 day, 3 night mini cruise to the Bahamas; get all the details.
A Wedding! November 7, 2009, Leonard and Jenny Parker - The big day.
What about the Norfolk Area-Favorite places to eat in Virginia Beach, Chesapeake area and what to see.
Atlantic City, Long Weekend -Why we keep going back. Where to eat, sleep and play
Washington with Grant and Donna -Great time. So awesome to meet up with old friends, and Shelby, you're not 2 any more!
4 Days in New Orleans - What a great get away. We escaped for 4 days and 3 nights to New Orleans.
Atlantic City Weekend -Caesar's invited me for the weekend, free flight for two, free rooms and most meals free. Well it's never really free, but it was nice.
March Break, 2009 - Katrina and the family come to Myrtle Beach.
Wintergreen, VA , Closing Day, 2009 - A day at Wintergreen Ski hill, and we thought ski season was over.
Summer 2007, wow - Catch all the up to date news on who did what, and the latest pics.
New York City New Year - Happy New Year 2007!
Wow Vegas, A Modern Wonder -What a birthday.
Richmond & Portsmouth, VA - What a weekend it turned out to be.
Len and Jo-anne Graduate- Definitely the highlight of my year was these two making it to graduation!
S.N.A.R.T. Group of Racers -Fun weekend, details in the news.
Natalie and Jay at Disney - A surprise visit to Florida for my niece and nephew, details here.
Holiday July 2005 - Rockford and Chicago highlights from 2005,click to go right to the story.
Skiing In North Carolina - Yes, there really is skiing here! See pictures, links to hill sites and more. Click to read.
Cruising the Caribbean - Nice cruise pictures and details.
Fit and Forty - How I did it!
Well I did get one of my winter news articles up on the news page before my mom and dad came to visit for a few weeks. You'll see the cruise to Bahamas out of Miami on the news page now and I'll be adding another Bahamas cruise information, out of Port Canaveral taken with my mom and dad this past month. It was a relaxing and enjoyable couple weeks.
We squeezed in a very inexpensive four day cruise while they visited and all went to the Bahamas from Port Canaveral, on Carnival Cruise Lines. I'll post a review on the news page and give my opinion of how they compared to the similar cruise on Norwegian Cruise Line in December. Don't miss out on the Vancouver and Whistler trip highlights and the Denver trip taken this past month also. All the info will be in the news coming this month.
Before my mom and dad made I also was able to squeeze in an escorted charity ride from Rock Hill, SC to Charlotte, NC. The Thin Blue Line Ride had a great turn out and goes to terrific cause, helping families of officers killed or injured in their line of duty. Having all those officers to escort the riders helped make it safe and special. The ride was given right of way at all intersections with police cars set up in each town to direct the traffic as we approached lights and even a train stopped to watch the ride go past. The turnout was huge, and made for a quite a site as all the bikes went past. A Thin Blue Line Album is posted, read about the event on the link provided and come join it next year. My neighbour, Dave, let us know about the ride as he's an officer who DJ's on the side and was DJ for the ride. A fun day.
So much was squeezed into the past 5 months, I have no idea where to begin! I went to Whistler for US Thanksgiving and met my brother there. I visited Victoria for a couple days, I just love it there and a night with friends in Blaine, Washington. They had a lovely property, what a quaint border town. The scenery is incredible and the I snapped some some photos of the harbour seals in Victoria that come right up at the dock looking for people to pass them fish. I headed away on a mini cruise to the Bahamas', right after Victoria and Whstler and then to Ontario to teach skiing for the winter at Mount Saint Louis Moonstone.
MSLM is back to my home digs. It was the first ski hill I ever taught at and the place I learned to ski. Unbelievable that there is still people there teaching I taught with 25 years ago. Mary and Sandra were both teaching here when I taught here in 1988, as was Dude and they are still there today. It was fun to go back my roots for a winter and get the awesome training offered from Level 4 ski school director, Jim Morris, Level 4 Ian Morrison and on weekends from Level 4 Ian Kirkpatrick (also remembered from way back when I learned to ski), along with a few others that skied with me weekly and kept me on my toes. Old friends and new friend's it made for a great winter and I achieved my main goal. Alida is comfortable on skis and got out every other weekend all winter. Great to know she has a good head start and I'm going to return to Ontario next year to teach, allowing Alida and myself to get a little more training and hopefully I'll go do my own exams.
Since returning to South Carolina I've spent a week in Colorado skiing and sight seeing in Denver. I'll do a few news articles over the next few weeks to cover off details of the Thanksgiving trip to Whistler and Victoria, the Bahamas' mini cruise and my week in Colorado. I hear I may get to Korea in May, that's something exciting to come.
Photo compliments of Jim Morris, a little bright and not my best photo but it's the week day ski school.
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