A couple of weeks ago, I read an article from The New York Times by Paul Salopek. Salopek is embarking on a round the world journey by foot. He started in the Ethiopia where the first homo sapiens are said to have roamed. In Ethiopia, he found that many people still travelled everywhere by foot. He could ask for directions and people would know how to … Continue reading Reflections on Car Brain?
Our morning in Edmonton started early. I didn’t want to get home too late in Vancouver. So we woke around 6:30 am and were on the road by 7:30 am. We took the Yellowhead Highway (aka. Hwy 16) west out of Edmonton. It’s great quiet prairie driving from Edmonton to the Rockies. The prairies were made for cruise control (or is it the other way … Continue reading The Long Drive Home
We started our morning with our friends in search of free flap jacks. An error on my part in reading the times lead us to arriving too early at a church in the northeast sector of Calgary. Then an iOS app error pointed us to the Calgary Tower instead of a free flap jack venue. We abandoned our search for free flap jacks in flavour … Continue reading Calgary Sunday
Following up on Part 1, I wanted to share some actual driving experiences. I have had a chance to try a few different modo vehicles. Some are in good condition and drive fine, while some are starting to feel their age. The advantage of driving modo is definitely the variety of cars you can access. The most interesting drive was a Nissan Cube that I … Continue reading my modo experience so far – part 2
After all the setup and anticipation, I was really chomping at the bit to try out car2go for the first time. My first drive came one day when I was down along Main Street near King Edward. The weather was kind of overcast and rain was imminent. I had been sitting in an air-conditioned Blenz Coffee (who turns on AC on such a rainy and … Continue reading my car2go experience thus far – part 2
Plenty of parking is Hornby Street’s best-kept secret >> Vancouver Sun. According to this article there are … Eight-thousand, four hundred and forty-five … parking spaces in and around Hornby Street. That’s 8,445 in numerals, which I think actually has a bigger wow affect than typing it in words like they do in the article. 8,445. And how many parking spaces are being lost because … Continue reading Hornby Street Parking and Electronic Parking Signs
On this trip to Portland, we drove down I-5 all the way down. One of the big differences that I notice right away as a Vancouverite is how wide the highway is on the other side of the border. South of Mt. Vernon, the highway widens to 3 lanes. Also, the on and off ramps are much longer allowing for smoother merging onto the highway. … Continue reading Portland – Interstate 5
She made the switch from SUV to mass transit – OregonLive.com. Here’s a little piece that caught my eye on my Sightline Daily subscription. It’s the story of one transit commuter in Vancouver, WA who commutes to work in Oregon on a daily basis. This is a big change from just 10 months ago, when Raichel drove herself work. Like millions of people across the … Continue reading She made the switch from SUV to mass transit – OregonLive.com
I think North American driver training is pretty lax and easy, in general. In B.C., I feel that’s definitely the case. It sounds good and all to say that we will create a graduated licensing system to help improve new drivers. However, has that really been the case? We had a friend visit from Germany and she was telling us how she was preparing to … Continue reading Better Driver Training and Regulations
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