Archive for November, 2008

A better world, one couch at a time

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

I signed up at couchsurfing.com the other day.  Really a great resource they’ve put together.  It’s so much more than hooking up free places to stay.  People coming to stay with you and sharing their culture, insights and knowledge with you.  Traveling to a distant place and truly immersing oneself in the culture.

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Planes, trains and automobiles eh

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Wandered up to Nanaimo, BC this week.  They don’t make it to easy to get there sometimes.  Stephen and I ended up hopping the max train to the airport, plane to vancouver, cab to the ferry, ferry to south nanaimo, cab to dowtown Nanaimo.  Geez.  Both cabs were little Prius’, nice.

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