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Well, I thought I’d better write out a couple paragraphs about the rest of the trip before I forget it all. Jody and I got back safe and sound yesterday from Peru. All told, it took us just over 24 hours to get from the depths of the Jungle back to the good ole Capital City. The day started with several hours on the river in a motorized canoe, followed by hours waiting for a delayed flight in the jungle, capped off by the red-eye from Lima to Toronto, and a narrowly-caught flight back to Ottawa where bright-eyed Alix was waiting to take us home. Unfortunately, that didn’t end the journey, as we then had to drive directly out to get Jonah and back again, an extra 2+ hour trip! Needless to say, we’re a bit road-tired today, but tonight I might start checking out the 1600+ pictures we took!
Click here for photos from this day. Well here marks the end of our 2nd day in Buenos Aires (well, first real full day). Jody was just emailing our tour guide to let him know about the lost baggage situation. We’ll be meeting with him tomorrow morning, but the note said that if we had anything important to tell him about, we could just shoot an email. The weather was friggin’ awesome today. I’m talkin about 34 dgrees celsius here folks. Luckily, the humidity wasn’t too high either. However, the sun, she was mighty hot. Think scorched stevey-head. I’m wiped out after all the walking in the sun. We spent the day doing a self-guided tour of all the sights in downtown BsAs. We also did some shopping, we’ve started phase II of project forget Air Canada, Jody bought a duffle bag, as well as some replacement tank tops, and other things. Our tour took us all over town, to some of the important plazas, as well as to the famous theatre (Teatro Colon) and to Recoleta Cemetary, where all the rich and famous dead hang out in their mausoleums. Pretty cool place actually. We tracked down Eva Perron’s tomb (not easy to do in a place like this.) Snapped lots of pictures, of which you’ll all see plenty of when we return. We managed to get back to the hotel for what we thought was our 6pm briefing. Turns out our guide was stuck somewhere between Bolivia and Argentina, and we wouldn’t see him until the next day. Oh well, time for more adventure. read on.
Howdy folks! Have you been missing me of late? There really hasn’t been that much to fill you all in on that would be of great interest. Basically, I’ve been training and packing and working. Boring, right? Also ActiveSteve has been operating out of a temporary location, and that hasn’t been all that conducive to doing much other than the things I’ve listed. However, that is all about to change tomorrow, on April 1st. Why you ask? Because I’m pulling up stakes and heading to a whole other province to my new house! Yup, it’s moving day! Get the keys at noon, and movers should show up at the old place soon after. I imagine you are all now wondering what sort of casa I managed to find in a short period, right? Well, you’re curiosity will be rewarded. For starters, just check out the folder of pictures that I put up on flickr. Afterwards, read on for a few more details.
Hey gang, just thought I should check in with everyone and let you know what Deanna and I have been up to. As you are all aware from the last post, the winter race season was over, so now I’m sort of in between races and events, and focussing on training and also just trying to have a good time. With that in mind, I figured I’d write a quick post about a trip to a friend of ours’ sugar shack a little over a week ago. Deanna had never been to a sugar shack, and we decided that we’d go for the full-on authentic experience. It was made doubly a good idea by the fact that we were hosting Deanna’s sister Cheryl with us for the weekend! What exactly do I mean by the full-on authentic experience? Well, read on and find out. Here’s a tip though: there were no tourists, we had to hike in, and we were even put to work! To see pictures of our little visit to Mike Caldwell’s Ark, and his very own sugar shack, head over to the flickr folder chock full of maple syrupy goodness. Aftwerwards, click through to read the rest of my little story.