Posts Tagged: Charlottetown & PEI
Hurricane Earl – What You Need to Know
Posted by on Friday, September 3, 2010 in - 1 comment
It’s true. A hurricane is coming and I’ve been unusually quiet. I’ll chalk it up to a very busy summer. I thought I would take some time and sift through all of the crazy news/rumours out there to give you a better idea of what to expect this weekend when Earl visits. • Hurricane Earl is, at … read more »
Renovation Update
Posted by on Monday, June 28, 2010 in - 1 comment
If you live around Charlottetown you've probably noticed we're upgrading the outside of our office. We're midway through. All in all things are going very well and we're on track to pretty much finish the exterior this season. • Here is what we've done to date: • Ripped off three walls of old …
An Architecture of Arrogance
Posted by on Saturday, February 20, 2010 in - 4 comments
Peter posted a photo on Flickr with the title "Architecture of Arrogance". A few of us have responded to it and are having an interesting discussion on what makes a building "fit" in a city street-scape. • So far we have two entrenched camps. In the right corner we have Peter stating that the …
A Simple Charlottetown Transit Schedule
Posted by on Thursday, February 4, 2010 in - 11 comments
I've grumbled about the Charlottetown Transit routes in the past. This morning the local CBC has an article about the confusion of the system. I decided to take a crack at simplifying it. • This proposed new schedule makes the following assumptions and decisions: • Public transit is most …
LearnToTravel Take 2
Posted by on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 in - leave a comment
As with any new idea it takes a few tweaks to get it just right. We had a lot of interest in the course and trip to Costa Rica but most people weren't able to make both work. As a result we're adapting. • We are considering simply offering the travel course (no trip) this winter. The course … read more »
Future Shop and Visa Statements
Posted by on Thursday, November 26, 2009 in - leave a comment
On my Visa statement this month there were two significant line items listed as: Charlottetown, Charlottetown PE. For the life of me I couldn't figure out what they were. I thought perhaps the City of Charlottetown was charging me for random water and sewer usage. • Tonight I called Visa … read more »
Learning To Travel
Posted by on Sunday, October 25, 2009 in - 3 comments
On May 17 2004 Becky and I stepped foot in our first country outside of Canada and the USA. It was our honeymoon and we were in Costa Rica. Our first few minutes in this strange new land didn’t go so well. The automatic doors of the Juan Santamaría International Airport slid open and we stepped …
The Guardian, our local newspaper, is really scraping the bottom of the news barrel today. This just in: Stuff might happen!
Posted by on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 in - 2 comments
Tropical Storm Danny
Posted by on Wednesday, August 26, 2009 in - 1 comment
Tropical Storm Danny just formed off the coast of the Bahamas and has a foretasted track to come over the Maritimes this coming weekend. I could get used to this Hurricane a weekend type of lifestyle.
