Three months and Bigger Stupider

Well, those months went by pretty fast. I've no idea wat I was doing for much of that time, but few things in life are more memorable than driving for 20 hours on your own, with only the briefest of pauses to sleep in the back of a truck in Walmart's parking lot in Red Deer AB and another to view the world's (claimed) largest Croatian Easter egg.

I tell you, that's memorable and no mistake. The purpose of all that memorable journey was to exchange faithful Big Stupid for a different large, white, Ford vehicle... which has yet earn its name. For now, I'm calling it "Bigger Stupider". 

The photo album below might clue a person in as to why we bought such a large white vehicle. One day I might even write something about all the various tinkering and jiggery-pokery that has gone into this thing. But probably not.

Rockies photos - chapter 3

Family-format bike-packing (and also bike not-packing)

I imagine this voids the warranty on Chariots... but it worked out :)

Finding rocks in the Rockies

More canoe fun

Camping, something thankfully that's still a thing when you need to stay two meters apart from other people

My bicycle ability is in imminent danger of being superseded by my children

More to come on this topic, but for now let me just say this:

Bicycle, children, camera, action.

Slocanada Day Camping Trip

Some suspension of disbelief was needed when we read the mostly terrible weather forecast, but it all turned out nice in the end. Slocan Lake on Canada Day might need to become an annual thing. Slocanada Day - can you see what I did there?

The COVID diaries

Times of viral pandemic may not be a ripe scenario for fun, but we have still found some fun things to do close to our house and at a responsible distance from other people over the past few months. I haven't had a haircut this year, but have taken to wearing a hat to avoid photographic evidence - so that's fine.

No brakes and a tutu

No brakes and a tutu from Andrew Dye on Vimeo.

It's Just Grass 3

It's that time of year again when I can make a video of Tav riding his bike to Kal Beach. This year's viral pandemic special is also a celebration of being allowed back in the park again, and near (but not too near) our friends.

The ghost of winter present

I went skiing without children, and without Lina. At first this felt odd, but I got back into the swing of things before too long. We were at the Lequereux Outpost for a week, which was awesome and the kind of place I would go back to despite being generally against going back to places. Incidentally,  was the only person flying their food into the hut in daiper boxes, which made me feel like a very special snowflake indeed.

Other people skiing looked like the pictures below. Me skiing looked like a man with a larger backpack than everyone else (evidence may emerge in due course) doing similar things. I'm not sure why that was, perhaps I didn't get the memo that small is beautiful in 2020, if not indeed always.

Skiing with just your friends and the mountains  is a lot of fun, and I hope one day to introduce Tav and Aise to such things. In the meantime Tav is getting very interested in the terrain park at Silver Star, which I can extrapolate into him doing alarming things that I can't do before very long. Perhaps I will be one of those people who live out their fantasies through their children... and perhaps I'm ok with that, so long as it was "their" idea :)

Where did winter go?

Whilst we likely have at least another six weeks of winter around here, it feels like it's almost over already... here are a few family highlights.