Tag: vacation

  • The entire Victoria trip, part 2: Saturday

    The entire Victoria trip, part 2: Saturday

    This being the writeup + photos post for what Dara and I did in Victoria earlier this month, on Saturday the 5th! Aside from going to see Le Vent du Nord, that is, which of course I covered already. 😀 The previous post of this set, for Friday the 5th, is here!

  • The entire Victoria trip, part 1: Friday

    The entire Victoria trip, part 1: Friday

    I already went on at considerable length about the general awesomeness of seeing Le Vent du Nord perform at Hermann’s Jazz Club. And of course, y’all also know about my newly christened mammoth! But I’ve been reminded that I did not in fact give you a proper writeup of the weekend as a whole. And…

  • Le Vent du Nord Plan B is GO

    Le Vent du Nord Plan B is GO

    Because I am damn well going to see some Le Vent du Nord SOMEWHERE this coming weekend, I have now enacted Plan B: going to the Victoria show on Saturday night! Advantages to this plan: Dara is coming with me so I’ll have oodles more fun anyway Dara and I have never been to Victoria…

  • Imminent Anna sightings!

    Imminent Anna sightings!

    For Seattle-area locals, hey, I’m going to be at Norwescon! Not in a professional writer-type capacity, but I WILL be there, and I’ll be easily found providing assistance to Dara during the music concerts! And just in case anybody wants one, I will also be bringing my few remaining print copies of Faerie Blood. And…

  • The Great Canadian Adventure,  Days 4 and 6–Montreal!

    The Great Canadian Adventure, Days 4 and 6–Montreal!

    I don’t have any pics from Montreal, I’m afraid, so y’all are going to have to just make do with my textual descriptions to cover Days 4 and 6 of the Great Canadian Adventure–which I am combining on account of Memoire et Racines, Day 5, gets its own post! The bulk of Day 4, really,…

  • The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 3!

    The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 3!

    And now, let’s get back to recounting the details of the great Canadian Adventure, shall we? Because I gotta tell you people about Memoire et Racines, not to mention GBS, but I ain’t skipping ahead! Our last day in Toronto involved less wandering around than the two previous ones, in no small part because we…

  • The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 2!

    The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 2!

    Day 2 of the Great Canadian Adventure involved more wandering around through Toronto, and in this particular case, that meant that our fine host cow took solarbird and me along Queen Street towards downtown Toronto. The plan was to stop and have lunch and hang out for a bit, until it was time to meet…

  • The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 1!

    The Great Canadian Adventure, Day 1!

    So yeah, the Great Canadian Adventure has begun, folks! solarbird and I made it safely to Toronto last night, after a surprisingly relaxed and groovy jaunt out of Sea-Tac. Thanks to spazzkat kindly running us down to the airport on his way to work, we got there super-early and had acres of time to kill.…

  • One week and counting down to the Great Canadian Adventure!

    One week and counting down to the Great Canadian Adventure!

    PEOPLE OF ATLANTIC CANADA AND QUEBEC! There are but seven scant days until and I will be among you for two weeks of hanging out, meeting up with people, and general musical awesomeness! We are looking very, very forward to meeting up with , with fellow Le Vent du Nord fan Susan, with hopefully (HEY…

  • Great Atlantic Canadian Adventure is GO!

    Great Atlantic Canadian Adventure is GO!

    Dara and I started serious work on booking this last night, and discovered to our chagrin that the fares for cross-country Canada trains are prohibitively expensive! So our Trainventure is going to have significantly fewer trains than expected. But that’s OKAY. Because this entire trip is going to brimming over with so much awesome that…