Day 4: Closing Meeting; Beach in the Neighborhood; Granville Island; Final Thoughts
Sunday, July 6, was the last day of the convention, closing with a "Big Meeting" at the stadium from 9-11am. We left the condo [...]
Day 3: Whistler Mountain. And bears.
The morning started as the prior did, with me up first and getting the blog up over coffee. Mark had spent the night with [...]
Day 2: Walking tour downtown, Opening Meeting of the convention
I was the first one up about 5:45am. I sat on the little balcony drinking coffee and getting the first blog entry up. By [...]
2025 Vancouver: Day 1 – Arrival, AA International Convention
Thursday morning, July 2, we headed to Vancouver, BC, Canada, for the AA International Convention that happens every 5 years. And since 2020's was [...]
Day 9: The last day; my traditional Final Thoughts
We really slept in Tuesday morning, both getting up just before 5am. Well, that's sleeping in for me, anyway, almost 8 hours of much [...]
Day 8: A lazy day in Waikiki
I was up about 3:30am on Monday, after about 5.5 hours of sleep which is sadly normal for me. And mostly enough. I went [...]
Hawai’i videos REDUX
Let’s try this again. Apologies to subscribers who received notification of the first one but nothing was working. I’ve been having challenges with videos this [...]
Day 7: Oahu beaches, Waimea Falls & Botanical Gardens
I slept in a bit for me on Saturday, not up until about 4:20am. Although we had great coffee in the room, I didn't [...]
Day 6: On to Oahu – The Royal Hawaiian, Manoa Falls
Saturday morning, I was up at my normal 4am or so and worked on the blog. Ash was up not too far behind me. [...]
Day 5: More beaches; The Road to Hana
On Friday, Ash and I were both up about 4:30am. We made coffee and he watched a movie on Netflix ("Carry-On") while I worked [...]
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