I’ve been a little delinquent in posting over here at TheseBoots since I accepted a paying gig with the BootsnAll Travel Network in the fall of 2010.
I’m helping to build WhyGoCanada, a one-stop resource for travel to Canada.
Since BootsnAll is a sponsor of the upcoming TBEX11, a popular travel blog conference that I wrote about [...]
Someone always asks when’s the best time to arrange a house swap, and the answer is: right now.
Even the workaholics among you are going to find it hard to put in an honest day’s labour for the next 72 hours, so in that idle time between unpacking your stocking and undoing your belt, I suggest [...]
Just wanted to share my story about the pleasures of walking in Victoria, BC that’s out now in the Fall 2010 issue of Canadian Geographic Travel.
It’s a beautiful spread with photos by the extremely talented Deddeda Stemler…hope you’ll have a look!
Loved reading all your memories about Theatre Under the Stars–thanks to all who shared for a chance to win dinner for two at Adesso Bistro in Vancouver’s West End.
As I mentioned in that earlier post, Adesso is offering a special pre-TUTS dinner menu throughout August.
I used random.org to pick a winner: congratulations Linda DeRuiter–I hope [...]
With a promise that the rain that fell on stage would be the only wet stuff Vancouver saw this summer, Theatre Under the Stars kicked off a six-week run of Singin’ in the Rain at Malkin Bowl last night.
On the theatrical scale, TUTS productions fall smack in the middle between low-budget, high-energy high school musicals [...]
What do you get when you cross a passion for hockey with a summer road-trip and a desire to do good?
If you’re 21-year-old Vancouver hockey blogger Richard Loat, you get Five Hole for Food, a 10-day traveling road hockey game that’s helping to replenish the shelves of Canada’s food banks.
The first ball dropped on June [...]
Update 6/2/2011: A few weeks after writing this post here on my personal travel blog, I accepted a position as the host of the Canada travel guide at WhyGo.Com, part of the BootsnAll Travel Network. It was a chance TBEX encounter with Sean Keener, the Big Boots at BootsnAll, that led to the position. The [...]
I knew Bard on the Beach artistic director Christopher Gaze was connected. But I had no idea his contacts went so far up the food chain that he was able to arrange perfect weather for last night’s delayed opening of Much Ado About Nothing.
It was the perfect kick-off to summer: Shakespeare and Vancouver both at their [...]
My SFU pal Steve Ray tipped me to this little bit of travel goodness: you can now use Google to plan your city walking tour in Canada or further afield.
It’s free, fun and ridiculously simple: just plug in a starting address at citytours.googlelabs.com, select your dates and bingo–you’ve got the first draft of your tour [...]
Well that was fun…not.
With a little technical help from my friends (thanks Brad, Josh and Rebecca), I’m back into my boots again.
Someone messaged me to say that being hacked was a form of flattery. Whatever: next time just send chocolate…
