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16 Nov, 2007

Calgary is big enough for better transit

Posted by: Geoff In: General

As I’ve said before, I’m no expert. I haven’t been everywhere or done everything. But one thing I have done is paid attention to public transit systems, especially the ones I’ve had to deal with on a daily basis.
Such as the one in Calgary. You already know how I feel about our beloved transit system. [...]

30 Jun, 2005

Things seen along the way

Posted by: Geoff In: Photography| Trains| Travel

As we’ve moved along over this journey, I’ve taken pictures of things for posting to the blog. Some of them didn’t make it, for one reason or another. But hating to waste good pictures, I thought I’d throw them into a blog posting for all to experience.

13 Jun, 2005

A side-trip to Macau

Posted by: Geoff In: Travel

One last thing we needed to do before we leave the Hong Kong area was check out Hong Kong’s forgotten half-sister, Macau. Macau was founded a couple hundred years earlier than Hong Kong by the Portuguese, and was originally the heavy weight title holder of foreign trading port until the British dethroned it with, shall [...]

12 Jun, 2005

Amy’s ready to kill me, I swear…

Posted by: Geoff In: Travel

I complain a lot.
Unintentionally, I swear, but I do.
(Amy says I like to complain, but I actually hate it. I don’t even realize I’m complaining until I complain. I complain to myself that I complain, and get stuck in a vicious cycle of complaint. But I digress…)

12 Jun, 2005

The dim sum curse lifted

Posted by: Geoff In: Travel

The dim sum curse is lifted, finally! After a few days of trying to figure out where to go, we hit Hong Kong Island to see what we could find. Our concierge had recommended a place called “Luk Yu Teahouse”, which according to the Lonely Planet guide is full of surly staff. When we got [...]

11 Jun, 2005

Paddles up!

Posted by: Geoff In: Travel

For the record, we didn’t it plan it this way. But like many things on our trip, fortuitious circumstance happened to place us in Hong Kong on the first day of the Dragon Boat festival!

Having first tried dragon boating last year, I was curious to see how the Big Buoys (yes, bad joke) do it [...]

11 Jun, 2005

Going uphill to Victoria Peak

Posted by: Geoff In: Trains| Travel

After meeting up with Amy, following our mutual attire sizings (and having a snack in a very Irish bar, oddly sitting amidst a lot of very Chinese surroundings), we took a ride up the Victora Peak Tram.


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