Category Archives: pacific north west

Super Weekend Day 1 – Mt. Washington

By Jon | Published April 15, 2011

Well we are on our super weekend as we are calling it, it’s Kyle, Darcy and Scott’s birthday weekend and we’re going full on west coast, snowboarding today, surfing tomorrow. I don’t like snow so I have just been wandering around a bit taking pictures, tomorrow I was going to take surfing lessons but a [...]

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San Fran Road Trip!

By Jon | Published March 27, 2011

Amy and I are thinking of doing a road trip down the coast in April or early May to San Francisco, basically mirroring the road trip I did on the Bandit, except this time it will be us and in the car which will make things faster for sure. The basic route is below, it [...]

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Kelowna Cottage

By Jon | Published September 6, 2010

For the long weekend we ended up going up to Kelowna for the weekend with some friends and the wiggles. It was a pretty good weekend I wish I did more fishing but the dock where we were was small and kind of sucked to get any of that done conveniently. That aside everyone went [...]

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Porteau Cove Scuba

By Jon | Published September 6, 2010

Last weekend I finally managed to get out and do a little of diving with my friend from work Dan Stovell. The weather was nice and sunny and it was quite warm out, the ocean good and calm so no struggling to get in or out of the water this time. The one thing I [...]

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First Solo Sail, Fun Times!

By Jon | Published August 2, 2010

Up until now I’ve done all my sailing with my buddy Kyle who is very experienced, but ever since he went and bought his own fancy 40 foot boat my dedicated Kyle time has been few and far between.  It’s like a new girlfriend he just doesn’t have the time for me.  Also up until [...]

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A Clean Bottom Is A Fast Bottom

By Jon | Published July 25, 2010

Last Sunday for my birthday we tried to take the boat out. I noticed right away that something was wrong. As we were pulling out of the slip I just couldn’t get any momentum. Without building up a nice little bit of wash over my rudder I basically have no steering. Usually I have steering [...]

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5:30am is way to early to get up to do anything!

By Jon | Published May 31, 2010

But 5:30am is the time we needed to get up in order to be on the charter’s boat and out fishing for 7am. Amazingly enough 5:30 while really early for me as I’m not a morning person and definitely a late night kinda guy, it wasn’t hard to get up. It’s always easier it seems [...]

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Seattle Day 5 – Beechers Handmade Cheese, The Smith Tower and Pearl

By Jon | Published April 15, 2010

The Smith Tower, Seattle, Beechers, Bellvue, Renton, USA

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Seattle Day 4 – Underground Tour, Chilling and Vons

By Jon | Published April 9, 2010

This post will be a short one, as I want to do a much more in depth post later about the Underground Tour, I don’t think a quick write up will do it justice and I would like to explain what the pictures are actually about.  Today started off as another lazy day, I kinda [...]

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Seattle Day 3 – Seattle Aquarium, Naps, Tavolata and Juju

By Jon | Published April 8, 2010

Well after last nights epic drink fest with Heidi, the day started off slow.  Dave got up around 9 and wandered over to Top Pot to work on his blog, sip coffee, eat giant donuts, sight the fake Gary Busey, and allow me to sleep in.  He makes a good vacation wife!  After convincing Dave [...]

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