After two days of mountain biking, yoga and late-night performances, we are sorely in need of a sleep-in. We wake at 8:30 am and head off for our usual breakfast,…
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Club Med Charlevoix – Summer 2026 – Day 3
Some ideas are obviously bad from the start. Others are only apparent with the luxury of hindsight. Today held the latter. I awoke blissfully unaware at 7:45 am, 30 minutes…
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Club Med Charlevoix – Summer 2026 – Day 2
Vacations don’t usually have 7:15 am wake-ups, but we’ll have to make an exception this time around. It’s our first time trying out Club Med Charlevoix’s mountain biking program, and…
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Club Med Charlevoix – Summer 2026 – Day 1
How time passes. It seems like just yesterday we arrived back from our extended Tasmania to Tokyo trip, and not the (checks notes) two-and-a-half months that have actually transpired. But,…
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Tasmania to Tokyo – Kiroro / Travel Vortex – Day 80
Tasmania to Tokyo – Kiroro – Day 79 can be found here. You’ll have to excuse me, I’m not at my bestI’ve been gone for three months, on the road…
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Tasmania to Tokyo – Kiroro – Day 79
Tasmania to Tokyo – Kiroro – Day 78 can be found here. Thus dawns our last full day in Japan. These days always feel strange to me. On one hand,…
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Tasmania to Tokyo – Kiroro – Day 78
Tasmania to Tokyo – Kiroro – Day 77 can be found here. We appear to have settled into a routine here. I wake naturally shortly after 8 am. My wife…
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Tasmania to Tokyo – Kiroro – Day 77
Tasmania to Tokyo – Kiroro – Day 76 can be found here. Another glorious sleep-in day today. How long has it been since we managed two in a row? I…
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Tasmania to Tokyo – Kiroro – Day 76
Tasmania to Tokyo – Kyoto / Kiroro – Day 75 can be found here. If ever there was a day when we needed to sleep in, it’s today. There is…
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Tasmania to Tokyo – Kyoto / Kiroro – Day 75
Tasmania to Tokyo – Kyoto – Day 74 can be found here. 4:40 am comes way too soon. Particularly as I didn’t get to bed til close to midnight, having…
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