Entries by Sean
Cycling Portugal: An Opposing Experience
How could riding a bike on one side of an imaginary line differ much from the other? Same continent, similar language, familiar eats. This is where my hopes, expectations, rest as I cycle along the cruisy coast from Vigo towards the Portuguese border. You hop the ferry at the border, and keep on spinning. It’s tempting […]
Underseat Diesel Fired Heater
It’s summer and you’re contemplating the van build after a nice May long weekend. With recency bias holding it’s grip tightly, statements like “it doesen’t really get all that cold around here” and “most of the year we wouldn’t need heat” are exchanged. Fast forward to February. One morning parked at the ski hill, your […]
How to Not Ride a Bike Through Northern Spain, With a Surfboard
Each day, the sun is further delayed pushing into the eastern sky. With the horizon line high above the beach shore, you won’t feel direct light until around nine. I’m a fan of rising with the sun, but maybe that’s just an excuse for sleeping in through the productive morning hours. But the days of […]
How to Ride a Bike Through Northern Spain, With a Surfboard.
It is fall, but the weather of Northern Spain wouldn’t like to admit it. Sure, the leaves are in the process of falling and new colours emergent, but the air is rich with warmth, and saline humidity. The sun gradually arcs through the southern sky, casting rays through the less-than-lush trees surrounding my primitive campsite, […]
Perusing Mt. Wooley & Diadem in a Thunder Storm
It’s summer in the Canadian Rockies. For most, it’s an experience of warm temperatures, long days exploring alpine lakes and scenic vistas, and meeting other happy travelers on extended vacations. While it would be nice to join the majority on what sounds like a pleasant adventure, I seem to have gotten caught up in a […]
Thirty to Three
Life has been good lately and I find myself trying to pin the source. Surely, there must be a source which we can pin, then attempt to emulate, only to fall frustratingly into the trap of deconstructing things that cannot be taken apart. Can you relate? Last year I put thirty-thousand kilometres on my sprinter […]
Come As You Are
About a year ago, I was introduced to a fellow named Patrick who practiced at Yoga Passage in Calgary. Great guy – kind hearted, easy to talk to, always in a state of calmness, and had a background of success in business. With similar ambitions and working to realign some of my own values, I […]
Everything is ‘Lit’
Summer 2017 – So hot right now. Or maybe its all ‘Lit’, that word is trending… right? In the most literal sense, it’s lit. Everything on fire and it’s making it hard to breathe. We were hiking/contemplating bathroom-inducing mountain ascents in Rogers Pass when the smoke rolled in mid-July. They say to make the most of what […]