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Home again, gone again

January 21, 2008 By Chris Corrigan Travel

Queen of Capilano pulling into Horseshoe Bay, below Black Mountain

Just when I get home, off I go again. This time, I’m travelling to Whidbey Island for the Art of Hosting and then on to Regina, Saskatchewan for work with the Urban Aboriginal Strategy there, a combination of training and hosting a one day Open Space meeting.

So the light blogging continues until I can find some time and connections to speak about. In the meantime, enjoy the recent additions to my flickr account of some photos of Maui, a trip to the Quinault Nation, and life here on my home island.

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Oh, Hare.

October 26, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Travel, Uncategorized

Chicago, Illinois
It comes off almost as a sigh.
Chicago-O’Hare is well known for being a finicky place to make connections, due to weather or traffic.   I’ve mostly had good luck coming through here, with only one weather delay.   Today though I have enjoyed the hospitality of   the C concourse for most of the day, compliments of a United flight to Vancouver that was cancelled at 9:00.   I’m now awaiting the call for the 3:25 flight home.

So what does the C concourse have to offer the stranded traveller?   There are Starbucks outlets, but they lose their appeal after a couple of shots of watery espresso.   Hudson News is omnipresent but despite selling The Atlantic, The New Yorker and The Economist, they seems suspiciously short on Harper’s.   I am half imagining that the reason is political, given Harper’s stinging rebukes of establishment American politics of late.   Whch is why I want to read it.   Instead, I bought a copy of Best American Short Stories 2006, edited by Stephen King who provides an entertaining and honest assessment about the state of American short stroy writing: alive but not well.   His selections for the anthology are great.

Food…so not much around here of note.   I’ve always appreciated the fact that you can get Odwalla juice pretty freely around here.   I’m loaded on some kind of blueberry B-vitamin power mix.   Of the outlets, the Corner Bakery has the nicest sandwiches, freshly made pannini.   When I need a fill, the Manchu Wok offers heaps of non-descript Chinese food, MSG free at least and it fills the belly for the four hour flight to Vancouver on United, which I have redubbed “The Hungry Skies.”

Wireless is cheap, at $6.95 a day which is a steal if you’re logged on for as long as I have been, and there are these power stations that are nice to work at.   Power plugs in the waiting areas are scarce and nearly all in use by businessmen sucking down the watts while they make uberimportant cell phone calls.

And so the day proceeds, slowly, without any remarkable incidents, watching the crowds ebb and flow and waiting for UA1119 to spirit me to the west coast, eight hours later than I expected to get home.

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Over forests of red

October 24, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Travel, Uncategorized

Burlington, Vermont
I grew up in Ontario and this my favourite time of year in Eastern North America for many reasons.   But chief among those reasons is what happens to forests out here in the fall.   It is hard to describe to anyone who has never seen them, a maple forest in the fall, where the colours are bright yellow, orange and red.   Pitched against a blue sky, the scene is iconic, beautiful and stirs up a nostalgia in me for home.

Flying from Choicago to Burlington today, we crossed over the maple woodlots of the farming country of southern Ontario and upstate New York which were alive with the colour of turning.   Then over the Adirondacks, past Mount Marcy and Skylight, two peaks I have climbed upon, these ancient worn down mountains, 20 times older than the ones I live on now but still showing their grandeur and the shape of peaks and valleys covered with pine and spruce with pockets of yellow birch and red maple.   Over Lake Champlain, and into Burlington, a lovely older town on the lake, biger and more modern than I remembered it from a previous visit in 1993 but still small enough to have a main street feel about it.

Met up with my Art of Hosting mate Lenore Mewton and we stopped in at the CommunityMatters reception at the Echo Centre and then on for an excellent meal of contemporary Cantonese food at A SIngle Pebble.

Beautiful part of the world to retrun too, and I’m eagerly looking forward to the gathering tomorrow.

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Rukavina on Europe

September 18, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Travel

My friend Peter Rukavina is a pretty good traveller.   He usually make a couple of trips a year to Europe, some with family in tow, and he offers this wonderful guide to travelling in the continent, RuK style.

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Working in Victoria

July 31, 2007 By Chris Corrigan Travel 2 Comments

Victoria, BC

Kellogg harvest 002

My early morning haunt, Cafe Macchiato on Broughton St. in downtown Victoria.

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