{"id":778,"date":"2010-12-21T01:32:43","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T01:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/?p=778"},"modified":"2010-12-21T01:32:43","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T01:32:43","slug":"2010-travel-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2010\/12\/21\/2010-travel-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Travel Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

As seen at Silver Fox’s excellent blog<\/a>, here is a summary of all my 2010 trips (loosely defined!)<\/p>\n

All my travel was local, but wow, what an awesome year…<\/p>\n

January<\/strong><\/p>\n

We spent Christmas and New Year at my sister-in-law’s up near the Sun Peaks ski resort, in the interior of British Columbia. Here’s Mr E Man on a snowmobile<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Sun Peaks, January 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

February<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why travel anywhere when the whole world came to Vancouver for the Olympics?! Here we are celebrating my birthday at the Canada-Norway men’s hockey game<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Canada Hockey Place, aka GM Place, aka Rogers Arena, February 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

My good friend Mermaid did<\/em> travel during the Olympics – all the way to Whistler, to watch the ski jumping, luge, and other events. She very kindly contributed a guest post<\/a> to my blog, which I say counts for this meme:<\/p>\n

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Mermaid in Whistler, February 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

March<\/strong><\/p>\n

A group of us from work went down to San Diego to meet our collaborators, a few days after the Canada-USA gold medal hockey game. We may have mentioned it a few times per hour<\/span>.<\/p>\n

A couple of weeks later it was my turn to head to Whistler, to watch some Paralympic downhill skiing<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Winter sports are dangerous! Whistler, March 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

April<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don’t seem to have gone anywhere in April. Oh well. I’m sure I had a good time anyway.<\/p>\n

May<\/strong><\/p>\n

We took my parents on a road trip to see Mr E Man’s sister and her family in Kamloops, on to Whistler (where we were lucky enough to spend an hour watching a family of bears<\/a> hanging out in the lane behind our condo), and then to visit Mr E Man’s Mum on the Sunshine Coast:<\/p>\n

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Whistler (again), May 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

June<\/strong><\/p>\n

I went to Seattle.<\/p>\n

On my bicycle<\/em>, mofos!<\/a><\/p>\n

250 km. Too painful for photos, apparently, although there are some stills in the video at the link above.<\/p>\n

July<\/strong><\/p>\n

We started our five day kayak trip in Desolation Sound<\/a>. It was the best trip yet…<\/p>\n

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Desolation Sound, July 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

August<\/strong><\/p>\n

…and therefore worthy of two photos (the trip ended in August, so this is all good):<\/p>\n

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Curme Islands, Desolation Sound, August 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

A couple of weeks later we went to a music festival in Cumberland<\/a>, over on Vancouver Island:<\/p>\n

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Big Time Out, Cumberland, August 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

and spent as much time as we could escaping the heat by drinking cold beers in the nearby river:<\/p>\n

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Somewhere near Cumberland, August 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

September<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back to the Sunshine Coast, for a family wedding (SO. MUCH. FUN!)<\/p>\n

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Halfmoon Bay, September 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back to San Diego, for another meeting with the same collaborators.<\/p>\n

November<\/strong><\/p>\n

Um. Does White Rock<\/a> count? (Just barely, I’d say – it’s very close to home, but we did stay overnight in a B&B, for reasons relating to predicted and actual drunkenness):<\/p>\n

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White Rock, November 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

I also had a staycation<\/a>, which was fantastic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Vancouver, November 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

December<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back up to the Sunshine Coast, for a big happy chaotic family pre-Christmas party, complete with a multitude of nephews, dogs, and remote control helicopters.<\/p>\n

No other travel to report for December… although my blog moved<\/a>. Does that count?<\/p>\n

…………..<\/p>\n

It really was an outstandingly excellent year. It’s going to be hard to top it… but I’m gonna try! Mr E Man and I are planning a trip to the UK in May, and I hope to meet up with my Occam’s Typewriter co-consipirators, and assorted other blog buddies, which will also be superawesomesauce.<\/p>\n

Consider yourself tagged for this meme if you’ve blogged about a trip you took during 2010!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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