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08 Apr
Posted by Jon in dinner, pacific north west, Seattle | 2 comments
Seattle Day 3 – Seattle Aquarium, Naps, Tavolata and Juju
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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 ...
07 Apr
Posted by Jon in dinner, pacific north west, Seattle | 2 comments
Seattle Day 2 – Sci-Fi Museum, Ivar’s and Von’s Roasthouse
Today started out as a lazy day, Dave and I slept in, and slept in well. After finally dragging our asses out of bed and figuring out what we would do for the day, we decided that we needed to start out the day at Top Pot Donuts, just a block over from our hotel. ...
03 Apr
Posted by Jon in pacific north west, sailing, Vancouver | Comments
Windy At The Marina
I went down to the marina today to get some of that maintenance out of the way. Unfortunately, the in-line raw water filter I bought was the wrong size. 1/2″ when I needed to get a 3/4″ so back into a bag to be returned to West Marine that went. I broke out my aux ...
31 Mar
Posted by Jon in pacific north west, sailing, Vancouver | Comments
Marina Settled For Now!
Well took care of the marina for another year, but this year doing month to month. While more costly then doing a full year up front, a call the the marina by home revealed that I’m on the short list for a new slip! To say that makes me happy is an understatement. While my ...
03 Mar
Posted by Jon in Olympics, pacific north west, Photography, Vancouver | Comments
Recon Instruments Victory Party
After the excitement of winning Olympic Gold in Mens Hockey, after the din of the closing ceremonies had died down, after the blazing horns, screaming Canucks had quieted for the night (mostly), I had a party to go to! Some friends of mine have started a ski goggle company called Recon Instruments (clickable), and threw ...
25 Feb
Posted by Jon in Olympics, pacific north west, Vancouver | Comments
Sweden vs Slovakia
Last night I went to the Sweden Slovakia game, and what a game it was, kudos again to you Steve for amazing tickets! It was good fun hockey, I have pictures but I haven’t had an opportunity to go through them all yet. I was shutter happy that I actually got to bring my SLR ...
17 Feb
Posted by Jon in Olympics, pacific north west, Vancouver | 1 comment
LiveCity Downtown and a Little Time Lapse
So on Monday I set the camera up for the day to do a time lapse of the corner of the street. I setup the camera around 11am, and left it till around 3pm or so when it gave up the ghost cause my battery died. It was a little grey outside, but still the ...
31 Jan
Posted by Jon in Hiking, Lower Main Land, pacific north west, Photography, Vancouver | 1 comment
Rice Lake Loop Hike
Today for the first day in a week I didn’t feel like I was about to drop dead from this cold I managed to get last Sunday, so Amy and I decided to go for a little bit of a hike. It wasn’t exactly sunny outside, but it wasn’t raining either so it was off ...
16 Jan
Posted by Jon in pacific north west, Vancouver | 1 comment
So need new shoes!
Today we are having amazing weather in Vancouver. Considering how crap the rain has been lately I figured I would make the best of it and bike around Stanley Park today and take some pictures. I’ll post more later as I’m not home yet and doing this from my phone but it was pleasent and ...
03 Jan
Posted by Jon in pacific north west, sailing | Comments
Lovely January Sail
Well this is m first post from my phone and while on the boat to boot. Kyle an I went down this afternoon and finished up the butcher job we did on he lazy jack lines. I threw Kyle up the stick in his climbing harness and tried to remove the jacks from the mast ...
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