Category Archives: Travel

San Francisco May 8th to 11th

John, Ming, Chelsea and I just booked a trip to San Francisco May 10th and 11th. I’m going down a few days early for work. Should be fun!

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At Whistler, Behind on Blogging

This weekend the guys are up at Whistler for the Telus Festival. Thursday afternoon we arrived to fully stocked condos (thanks JJ) and then that night we went to the pro photographer showdown before drinking too much, skied Friday (it … Continue reading

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Road trip to Panorama!

Ming, Joe and I are in the Audi headed to Panorama for heli-skiing. I know a number of people are concerned so here are the avalanche conditions for the area. Of course the heli-ski operations describes the conditions as, “Excellent! … Continue reading

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The Gorge

This past weekend we went down to the Gorge. Some professional photos were shot. Here’s one of our boat:

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Giants game

I flew into hot and sunny Oakland this morning. Only 90′! This evening we saw the Giants play the Mets and they whooped them 9-4. Molina got two home runs in the fifth evening. Here’s Barry Bonds up at bat: … Continue reading

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SEA->YYC->LAS->SEA

When the ski season was sucking here in February we should have been going to Banff every weekend! I just booked a ticket to Calgary for April 25th and it was only $105! We’ll then head up to Banff for … Continue reading

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Driving to Winnipeg

Early December, around the usual time that I start thinking about buying a ticket to fly home to Winnipeg I took a look at airfares and found nothing for under $1000 out of Vancouver, Seattle was already way jacked up. … Continue reading

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New York on $500/day

Alrighty, finally, the blog post from New York. Let’s re-wind back to the 16th. Thursday: We slept in (we spent both Wednesday night and Thursday night at the Belvedere (which was a perfectly fine hotel), grabbed breakfast at Pigalle a … Continue reading

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Whistler for Thanksgiving

We (a motley crew of friends from Microsoft, Amazon and Redfin) went to Whistler for American Thanksgiving. Drove up Wednesday and skied, apres-skied, hot tubbed, ate and drank pretty much for four days straight. I am now in desperate need … Continue reading

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Sea to NY

Wow. It only took 12 hours door to door to get from my house to our hotel in Manhattan on Wednesday. The hang up was while we were flying to JFK we had to stop at Newark to re-fuel because … Continue reading

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