Chamberlain West Hollywood Reviewed - Keeping Up Appearances

    Chamberlain West Hollywood Reviewed – Keeping Up Appearances

    The Chamberlain West Hollywood, doesn’t pretend to be friendly, it seeps with pretense rather than exuding class. Being welcoming is a sensibility offered by places that can dissociate your physical appearance, in my case motorcycle gear, stubble and road grime, from your annual income and the front desk at the Chamberlain apparently can’t. The reception [...]

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    Whistler, BC - Spring Skiing: Never Too Late for the 40 Year-Old Downhill Virgin

    Whistler, BC – Spring Skiing: Never Too Late for the 40 Year-Old Downhill Virgin

    We’re at Whistler’s peak, some 1,530 metres / 5,020 feet of vertical above the renowned ski resort’s Village.  There’s a small lump in my throat as I look out across the bowl and peaks to a single craggy fang called Black Tusk.  The lump isn’t from the sweeping 360-degree alpine panorama before me, but the [...]

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    Deep Relationship Trouble

    Deep Relationship Trouble

    Want to strengthen a relationship? Get into trouble, deep trouble. Not the “invite a third person into the sack” variety, but the “our survival is on the line” and “Yay! We don’t have to die today” type. If a couple wants to work on their communications skills and know the relationship is strong, jeopardy is pure partnership magic.

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    Adventures

    Whistler, BC - Spring Skiing: Never Too Late for the 40 Year-Old Downhill Virgin
    Whistler, BC – Spring Skiing: Never Too Late for the 40 Year-Old Downhill Virgin

    Apr 17, 2011 | Read | Discuss

    We’re at Whistler’s peak, some 1,530 metres / 5,020 feet of vertical above the renowned ski resort’s Village.  There’s a small lump in my throat as I look out across the bowl and peak…

    Features

    Random Love and Orca Penis
    Random Love and Orca Penis

    Mar 18, 2011 | Read | Discuss

    I’ve been seated in the front of the boat, or as Sooke Coastal Explorations skipper Russ Nicks puts it, “the rollercoaster seat”. Apparently, the last rollercoaster I rode lacked gale forced rai…

    Gear

    iPhone vs. Kindle: A Traveler's Take on Convergence from the Road
    iPhone vs. Kindle: A Traveler’s Take on Convergence from the Road

    Aug 25, 2010 | Read | Discuss

    In a tent on the shore of Gonzaga Bay in Baja Mexico I’m laying in my mummy-sack reading Mark Jenkins’ A Man’s Life: Dispatches from Dangerous Places.  The book is a collection of essays coveri…