The Adventure – Becoming a Mechanic for a Day Being a chick, I tend to shy away from anything vehicle – after all, isn’t that what boys are for? My daddy might have taught me how to change a tire and oil up my vehicle, but nowadays, cars are WAAAAY more high-tech than the old clunkers ... Read More
The Adventure – Officially launching my Monthly Adventure website. I spent MONTHS learning about what a website is and then training myself to actually do something that resembles website design. Endless hours were spent trying to figure out what I was going to do with this thing, what I wanted to accomplish. Long story short, ... Read More
The Adventure – Donating my body to science The Guinea Pig He injects a needle into my arm telling me it’s going to resemble a mosquito bite. I think about this for a second – most people don’t feel the little buggers when they bite…just the itchy-scratchy sensation after the fact. It ends up being more ... Read More
I went out on a "Sins of the City" walking tour of Vancouver's shadier side. I was surprised to discover how many secrets this city keeps hidden from public consumption.
I am reminded of an era long ago - the time of the gladiator. It was a time of debauchery and bloodthirst. A time where gluttonous spectators would sit in the amphitheatre, swilling spirits and greedily consuming decadent treats - all the while watching a battle to the death being played out before their very eyes. The bloodier the better, I might add.
The Adventure – Learning how to read Faces The television series, Lie to Me is a show about interpreting micro-expressions and body language in order to expose the truth behind lies.I was fascinated – after all, who wouldn’t be interested in knowing when someone was lying to you? So when the opportunity to take any kind of face ... Read More
So what was an ex-Project Manager of an environmental provincial-wide program doing delivering newspapers in the dead of night? Learning a few hard lessons about life, I'd imagine.
The Adventure – Going Hunting for Bigfoot in Sasquatch Territory I was going night-squatchin’ with a group of professional sasquatch hunters. That’s right…I went out into the deep, dark recesses of the forest to search for an elusive man with really big feet. This is the stuff that legends are made of. What prompted this adventure, ... Read More