a Few More of those Favourite Things

Haven't posted any "real" blog stuff in a while, so I might as well do a list post. Here's what's keeping me going right meow:

Tim Horton's coffee and donuts are a Canadian staple. I love my double-doubles, sour cream glazed, chocolate glazed, maple dips, and turkey clubs. Unfortunately I can't get those in Singapore. I'm trying to do the math on how many Tim Bits (donut holes) I'll need to buy in Vancouver for my flight to Shanghai.

McDonald's Dollar Drink Days are one of the first signs of summer. As terrible as it may be, I love going into the drive-thru and coming out with a large Diet Coke for a little bit of spare change. I'm in at least four times a week. I may have an addiction.

Adele, particularly her song Rolling in the Deep, is one of my go-to summer playlist favourites. Even better are the amount of great covers of her material, so I can have multiples of the same song on my playlist and sing to each one. Also, I finally figured out what all the background singers' lines are. Victory!

Roller Coaster Tycoon became one of my favourite games the moment I started playing it. I recently reinstalled it on my family PC and have been glued to that machine ever since. My only problem is that I tend to make the rides "too intense" so no-one will go on them. Boo on you, wussy AI.

Living on an island and being able to hit the beach and the fact that it is finally hot outside. I love beach combing, suntanning, swimming, having bonfires, and all that good outdoor summer seaside stuff. Thankfully my next move will be to a tropical island. I might have plotted this in advance.



images by flamster2468, StayProud, jprice325, Mike Overall, and me

Under... Construction?

Yah, I've been inactive again. I know I promised posts about my recent trip to Turkey. Dropped the ball on that big time, yes. But I'm prepared to move on to what I really think the purpose of this space should be: me, rambling.

I fly to Singapore in just over two weeks, where I'll be living for about four months before setting out to travel once more. Hopefully I'll be good about updating this blog while I'm gone.

In the meantime, I need to change a few things around here. I'll be adding some pages to de-clutter the place, which is what that nav-bar below the title will eventually become. First, though, I need to figure out how this page thing works, hah. So I'm'a get to that.

Cheers!

a Taste of Turkey

Pun fully intended. And it's a whole lot more appropriate that my friend shouting "Cranberries!" after I said I was in Turkey.
Anyway, I'm back, and I've posted about half of my photos to my Flickr account. Only half? Yah, half. That's still 111 photos, so there's quite a bit to look at.

If you haven't jumped to that gallery already, then I'll explain these three photos a little. But just a little.
The first one is from an abandoned Greek village, uninhabited since the first world war. Except for the sheep. And the goats in another series of photos. And the tourist trap restaurants and such. Otherwise, totally uninhabited. The second photo is just a piece of street art from Istanbul. I like it. That's all.

Finally, the photo on the left is of the library at Ephesus, one of the biggest (the biggest?) tourist attractions in all of Turkey. Ancient city, Biblical importance, yadda yadda. Pretty cool stuff.
For the rest, hit up my gallery. Go!

all photos (c) me

Too tired to think of a proper title for this post. Zzz.

Not sure if I can write complete sentences right now. Or coherent thoughts. So here's the jumble.

Left Istanbul at 4am, or 6pm at home. Arrived home at 7pm the following day. Movie overdose. Mind wants to sleep, body doesn't.

Toronto forgot to load my bag. If it isn't on my doorstep tomorrow, I will be one sad panda. I will also have to go on a small shopping spree, as all my shorts are in that bag and I am moving to Singapore in two months. Problem? Maybe.

It feels weird not eating Turkish food. Or listening to an Iman singing a prayer at various intervals. Craving Chinese food, though.

Starting to ramble. Real posts (and pictures) will come soon enough.

Ciao. Or whatever it is in Turkish. Yes please.

Still Alive, I Swear, pt. 2

It's been well over a month, almost two, since I last updated this. I'd say my life hasn't been eventful enough to talk about, but that would be a big lie. I just got lazy, as I'm prone to do.

Over the next few days I'm going to be re-vamping this space, changing the background and header, renaming it, and potentially switching the layout a little. Why? Because I'm (rather prematurely) getting ready to convert this into my travel blog.

As the previous post mentions, I'm off to Turkey in a week and a half. Then I'll be travelling within Western Canada for a while, maybe I'll get down to Seattle. Finally, there's the move to Singapore and all the Southeast Asian travel I'll get up to while in that part of the world, which will make up the bulk of my entries. After that I miiiiiight retire the blog for a while. We'll see what happens when I get back in, oh, December.

So that's the plan. The next post you see from me will probably be for pre-departure. I won't be updating from Turkey on the blog (but if I make it to an internet cafe I'll update my Twitter now and again), so expect some larger posts in June complete with photos and, quite possible, embarrassing anecdotes of cultural faux pas.

Until next time!