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Whisky in my Pocket

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Christmas in Spain 2019: Day 1 – Victoria to Vancouver

Christmas in Spain 2019: Day 1 – Victoria to Vancouver

Kirkby KirkDecember 22, 2019June 2, 2026

This was pretty much your standard normal first day of travel… In fact, we can’t even really call it a day of travel… It’s more …

Spain 2019 – We’re getting close now…

Spain 2019 – We’re getting close now…

Kirkby KirkDecember 18, 2019June 2, 2026

It’s Wednesday now and we’re getting closer to our Friday departure and the days seem to be simultaneously crawling by and passing far too quickly. …

Christmas in Spain… The Plan

Christmas in Spain… The Plan

Kirkby KirkDecember 4, 2019June 2, 2026

So if you’ve read any of my previous trip blogs you’ll know that there’s always a plan. A very detailed plan. There might even be …

Christmas in Spain 2019

Christmas in Spain 2019

Kirkby KirkNovember 29, 2019June 2, 2026

So it’s Thanksgiving weekend (the Canadian one in early November) and the stars and planets have finally aligned and Marie and Caitlin’s schedules have come …

Christmas in Canada this year? Nope…

Christmas in Canada this year? Nope…

Kirkby KirkNovember 21, 2019June 2, 2026

Last year we decided to travel over Christmas for the very first time… So we packed up a few small gifts for each other, loaded …

Mexico Day 10: Playa del Carmen to Cancun to Calgary to Victoria

Mexico Day 10: Playa del Carmen to Cancun to Calgary to Victoria

Kirkby KirkJanuary 2, 2019June 2, 2026

We had grand plans of getting up and going for a swim in the hotel pool before catching our bus to the airport but that …

Mexico Day 9: New Year’s Eve in Playa del Carmen

Mexico Day 9: New Year’s Eve in Playa del Carmen

Kirkby KirkJanuary 2, 2019June 2, 2026

I was up earlier than Caitlin and Marie again and headed to my new favourite spot (Pez Vela) to have a cup of coffee and …

Mexico Day 8: Playa del Carmen and Tulum

Mexico Day 8: Playa del Carmen and Tulum

Kirkby KirkJanuary 1, 2019June 2, 2026

I woke up even earlier than usual (for this trip at least) and headed down to the beach while it was still dark… There were …

Mexico Day 7: Valladolid to Playa del Carmen

Mexico Day 7: Valladolid to Playa del Carmen

Kirkby KirkDecember 31, 2018June 2, 2026

I woke up before Marie and Caitlin (as I normally do) and tried to slip out as quietly as I could (I mostly succeeded this …

Day 6: Valladolid and Ek Balam

Day 6: Valladolid and Ek Balam

Kirkby KirkDecember 30, 2018June 2, 2026

As seems to be the case most mornings, I was up well before Marie and Caitlin and while they slept, I headed down to Calle …

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"Benedicto: May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl, through miasmal and mysterious swamps and down into a desert of red rock, blue mesas, domes and pinnacles and grottos of endless stone, and down again into a deep vast ancient unknown chasm where bars of sunlight blaze on profiled cliffs, where deer walk across the white sand beaches, where storms come and go as lightning clangs upon the high crags, where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you -- beyond that next turning of the canyon walls.”

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