Travel diaries and photo archives
These are a digital diary of the passing years, begun thirty-one years ago when the internet was still in diapers. 
When we are old and infirm (and perhaps back in diapers ourselves), they will remind us that we have had a good life.


Ajijic, Chapala and Guadalajara 2024
Mexico City Museums and Culinary Adventures, 2023
Costa Rica and Nicaragua, winter of 2018
Argentina, Chile and Uruguay, winter of 2017
Czech This Out! Spring 2016 trip to Prague, Krakow and Wroclaw in Poland, and Dresden in East Germany; Silken's wedding in  Pirna
Good Mornin' Vietnam! - the winter of 2013-2014 in Vietnam, Cambodia, and especially Nha Trang
Inca Treasury of Memories - our trip to Ecuador and Peru in the winter of 2012/2013
Kiwi Dreams - our winter trip to New Zealand, Fiji and the southern U.S. states
Australia trip, Feb and March 2011 - Sydney, Byron Bay, Adelaide, Melbourne
May to December 2010 diary entries - kittens, Habitat for Humanity, Toronto, Western Canada and Cuba
Winter '09-'10, in Florida - first three months of retirement! - Florida Keys and west coast
Summer 2008 - dragon racing; the Nahanni; Salt Spring Island; sailing
New Year 2006 (2005 in review) - Florida Keys; Vancouver Island; Niagara Falls; moving into Marsh Road home
New Year 2005 (2004 in review) - North Channel; Florida Everglades
Christmas 2003 - western Canada, Vancouver Island, Bolering around
New Year 2003 (2002 in review) - Dominican Republic; Florida manatees; ponies; turning 50
A few photos of Akumal at Christmas, 2001
Thanksgiving 2001 - Shuswap, Akumal, Scotland
Summer 2000 letter - our trip to Singapore, Bali, Java, Malaysia and Thailand, and wreck diving in Ontario
Snorkelling photos from Grand Cayman, Christmas '99
A web-letter of our summer '99 vacation in the Maritimes
Cozumel above water, March '98
My first open-water scuba dives, after PADI certification, in Cozumel, March '98



Near-death by alligator, and Kennedy Space Centre - Florida, 1997

Summer '96 trip to southern Africa
"Videoshots" - still frames from our African video:
Botswana and the Okavango Delta
Victoria Falls
 Mosi-oa-Tunya park, and Huange

On the Athabasca glacier- summer, 1993

Diaries of summers and winters spent in Toronto, Buffalo, Windsor, Washington, Whitehorse, and Edmonton:

Pandemic Years 2021 and 2022, no winter travel; gardening, music and new music instrument chops
Spring 2018 through 2020, illness and death of Sol at age 94, and two winters at home for us;
Covid19 Pandemic, the
Great Isolation, birds in a gilded cage: gardening; Community Centre bands

April to December of 2017: Washington with Moe and Jennifer; a flooded yacht club; Alana and Jonas wedding in Whitehorse
At home in Toronto, summer and fall 2016
Two Toronto Winters: April 2014 to May 2016
April to November diary entries for 2013 - first summer as Helpx hosts; the Tall Ships return; Buffalo, and Windsor
April to December 2012 diary entries - Lis' wedding, getting used to Dad being gone, music, volunteerism, hosting couchsurfers

May to December 2011 diary entries - new brother, new nieces, new cousins
Summer 2009 - local delights and attractions
Thanksgiving, 2006 - Ontario; Edmonton
A few boat shots - 2004
Christmas 2000 - sailboats and Alberta
Christmas99
Hallowe'en, 1993

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