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By Ewa and Jill
August 15th 2008

Leaving on a jet plane...

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Just practicing...

Heyy, I still cannot believe I am doing this!!! In two days I will be on a plane to Paris! Probably crying my eyes out for the first 2 hours of the flight.. sorry Ewa :( Today has been spent panicking and running all over Vancouver getting all those last little things I need. (Thank you Erik) I have still not figured out how all of my stuff is going to fit in ONE backpack... where do my heels and hairstraightner go? This trip is going to be amazing. Ewa has written an entire 34 page Travel Manual for this trip [View Full Entry]

By Nancy and Larry
July 7th 2008

One final thought!!

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Heh, remember the saga of the dented rental car that Larry and I returned to Sydney, Australia. We had charged it on our RBC Avion Visa card and hoped the rental car insurance would cover the damage. When we got home from Australia, there was a cheque for the full amount of the repair plus tax. $1,055. The system works. We just had to fax all the copies to Visa and they investigated and came through. The moral of the story is - don't pay for extra insurance, if you have a Visa card that includes Car Rental insurance but phone [View Full Entry]

By Nancy and Larry
July 6th 2008

The next adventure has started HOME!!

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Well we are home and it is just as wonderful as I could have hoped!! Had 2 lovely days in Hunter Valley wine area. Stayed at a great place but you know what, we are wined out, toured out. The only real interesting thing about the place was that one of the wineries had a breathalyzer. I had myself put on the car insurance just for this part of our trip and I'm glad I did. The legal limit is .05 and that is not alot. Larry picked a straw out of a bin, inserted the straw in a slot in [View Full Entry]

By lil Lo
March 2nd 2008

Two months to go-Test Blog

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Well Everyone.. Here I go again two years later on another journey. I thought I would take a rare moment to do a trial blog and make sure everything is up and working for my next adventure. As some of you already know April 29th I will be leaving for Nairobi, Kenya for a month. Perhaps I should back track for some of you around the world that I have not spoken to in some time. Last year thanks to some very amazing people (Dr. Jan Hill, Jon Cohen, Allison Coumont and Tamra Roberts) I was able incorporated a society with [View Full Entry]

By Nancy and Larry
January 9th 2008

Almost time to leave!!

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Isabelle looking very studious

Here it is January 8th. I finished working on Friday, Jan 4th and Larry will finish January 11th. We had a great Christmas and New Year. Lots of friends and family. Christmas Eve saw 27 of us eating lasagne, chicken wings and salad as is Family Tradition and then up the next morning to go to Ross and Bonnie's for gift opening, home to cook turkey for Clayton, Evan, Mike and Margaret Walsh and Katherine and Karl. It was fun Santa came on Christmas Eve to the children's delight. Our family has certainly taken a shift in the last few years. [View Full Entry]

By geoffscoates
October 6th 2007

Vancouver - 3 days till Japan

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Hey guys, I'm just setting up my blog, I hope you like it! Haven't left yet, but will be heading out on Tuesday morning at 7am. I've got my passport, visa and hopefully enough cash to last me for the first month until I get paid. But as you may have guessed, I don't speak a lick of Japanese, so my first few days should be filled with tons of confusion and me feeling like I made a big mistake. I was hoping that my employer was going to send me someone to pick me up at the airport, but apparently [View Full Entry]

By Asil and Nosyt
February 5th 2006

A week later

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Well... we made it home. All of a sudden I have the patience to blog again. The trip was amazing. I feel very lucky to have been able to go on it. Having my family and friends be a part of it was very special.It was everything I had hoped. There were a few very important people missed but I know they were there in spirit. When we sadly caught the ferry off the Island we looked back and watched the boat move from the shore. Lots of very important things happened during this trip. My commitment to Tyson and Haley [View Full Entry]

By Asil and Nosyt
February 4th 2006

Some pictures

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Ty as god

Here are some pictures. [View Full Entry]

By Utatu
January 23rd 2006

On a plane in 5 days...

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It seemed that this trip was so damned far away that it would be forever till it came and here it is in less than a week! Less than a week away… busy photocopying all the documents… been through a few trial runs of packing and generally running around with my head chopped off trying to get stuff together… not to mention getting things ready at home. I’ve had the luggage out for a few weeks now and on the first day, Sugar (my cat) freaked but I haven’t left yet so I think she forgot that luggage means going away. [View Full Entry]

By Asil and Nosyt
January 18th 2006

Latest pic

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T and L

It is now two days before we leave. We are packed and ready to go. Can't wait to be there. Tyson is going over all the details and driving me crazy with every question under the sun(it's like he thinks i have all the answers) I have decided that I don't know and what will happen will happen. Tonight we met with the commish and did the legal part of marriage. Haley was there and she signed as my witness. Very cool. It was nice that she was part of it like that. Here is a picture after the meeting [View Full Entry]

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