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T-Minus 7 days
Five-thirty is an unfair time of the morning. Especially if your alarm clock wakes you in the middle of a really good dream.
This morning, I took a taxi to the BC Rail station and boarded the Cariboo Prospector. It’s a three-car Rail Diesel Car (RDC) passenger train that runs between Prince George and [...]

T-Minus 8 days
There’s nothing like trying to plan one and a half months of a chaotic life in excruciating detail. It’s a little easier when someone else does all the dirty work, but ultimately, it’s you that will make it flow smoothly.
In my case, it was extracting myself from my life. Really, it was the [...]

There are times that I’m almost envious of myself. Well, okay, one time that I’m envious of myself. Hey, it’s better than being jealous of others…
I’m going on a train trip. But not any train trip. In fact, this falls into the “Once an Orbit of Pluto” category. And it all started when I read [...]

Somewhere, in a long-forgotten book in some dusty corner of a decrepit building in a burned out city, there is a sentence that says vacations are supposed to be restful. And someone is going to a lot of trouble to make sure I can’t find that sentence.
Last week, starting very early on 3 August, I [...]

This is my second day here at the CBC head office in Toronto. This is a weird place.
You’re probably asking: What is Geoff doing at the CBC head office in Toronto? That’s a question I can’t answer just yet — you’ll have to wait until next Tuesday. (The irony is that this won’t be posted [...]