It’s a nice spot, not to far from the city, and a good sized lake nestled amongst the mountains.  Finding space to cast from shore can be a real pain though, so the boat is definitely going to increase our ability to get some good fishing in!  Once I can afford to get a 9.9 Outboard we’ll hit up the bay on the ocean for some salmon trolling.  For now it’ll just have to be the local lakes and my little electric outboard.

Hopefully I’ll have some pictures tomorrow of dinner and The Dink’s maiden voyage.

A church outside of Edinburgh Castle, on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland. Nice thing about pretty much everything in Edinburgh, is its a small city easy to get around, but all the buildings in the older part of the city have a really nice old feel. Looking well aged, and having a story to tell due to the fact that the Nazi’s didn’t level it like some of the more southern cities during the war.

I would love to go back and spend more time just wandering around. Its a great walking city, with all the hills you’ll get a great work out too!

I got rid of the boat, donated it to a charity for a tax receipt, there were reasons for it, with having zero time, and I wanted to make a couple significant (read expensive) upgrades, I figured it was best to get rid of her, but do something nice for society at the same time.  Plus it saves me a boat load of cash next year which will go to debt reduction, and thinking about the future, which I’m hoping will include moving to the UK.  Can’t take a boat with you!

Other then that, work is busy, my company is busy, life is busy!  I really wish I could win the lottery so I could just concentrate on one thing   Preferably from a beach in Turks and Caicos doing my rebreather training!  Stay tuned, I’ll post some more pictures from the Euro Trip soon.

Photos from my journey through Paris’s underground. In the late 1780′s Paris was in need of a place to move it’s overflowing graveyards, the solution was to put over 6 million of the dead into the old mined quarries beneath the city. The 2km stretch of tunnels you can walk, averaging just over 6 feet in height only represent a small fraction of the 300+ km of actual tunnels.

Finally arrived in the UK for the wedding present trip my parents got Amy and I two years ago. We’d have been here sooner, but works always managed to get in the way, but finally things are stable and relaxed enough in the studio, and we aren’t finalling that I can get away! Here we are in Merry Old London for a few days before tripping off to Paris!

Unfortunately I didn’t get to ride the road, but i did drive it with my buddy Steve who recently moved here from Toronto to help me convert this city to less hippy and more awesome!  We popped into the Hell’s Gate Air Tram and checked that out.  Its a pretty neat location, apparently the deepest and narrowest point on the Fraser River, the history behind it is pretty much insane.  The discovery and exploration of this region was treacherous to say the least, I’ll post more about it later along with some pictures.

Back to the road, we took the #1 up to Boston Bar where the Hell’s Gate is and then continued on to Lytton where we jumped on the #12 following signs to Lillooet where we were finally back on the 99 and headed south to Whistler for some dinner and then home.  The road is well maintained but has lots of twists and turns and threads through the Fraser Canyon with the Coastal Mountains on one side and the Cascade Mountains on the other.  If I’m lucky, I’ll get to ride it before the riding season up there is out and weather starts turning nasty.  If not its on my list for first thing next year when the snow is out, and the roads are dry!

I ended up routing power from the 12v powering the cabin lights, I figure draw across that circuit is low with all my lights being LEDs, plus it was about the only option I had without ripping the interior of the boat apart. One day I’d like some speakers in the cockpit but for now this will do!

You know I found this pretty sad to watch. It really goes to show how the few can really ruin it for the many. Where I watched the game in Yaletown the crowd was in good spirits after the Canucks lost the cup. But as we left there were already plumes of smoke rising above the city. We made our way over the bridge and headed to a friends and the smoke was still rising.

After having the Olympics go off without a hitch, you figure that we could have been less of a douche bag about losing the cup. But no, a few young tards from out of town thought it would be more fun to riot, fight, and loot in the streets. For the first time since I moved here, I kind of wish I wasn’t associated with Vancouver at all. I know it was the few once again, screwing the many over, but still it is disgusting.

Next time there is a big event, I hope the police will finally figure it out and have a bigger presence to help avoid these kinds of situations. What I did see of the police on TV though, I thought they handled themselves well amongst the chaos.

Game One of the Stanley Cup finals down, and Vancouver up one to start the series off on the right foot! There were 40,000 people on Granville and Robson streets last night and as you can see everyone seemed to be having a pretty good time!