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Trees are in full bloom in Vancouver. Everything around us is vibrant, lush, and fluorescent green, including what we are driving during our week-long stay out here. Some people may look scornfully at our wheels and think that we are definitely...
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We’ve all done it. Rolled down the car window while coasting along some country road, put our arm out and rolled our hand slowly up and down in the slipstream, like an ocean wave. It’s the universal symbol for family road trips in the...
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There’s no doubt that technological advances have improved the reliability, safety, comfort and convenience of today’s cars and light trucks. Horsepower is up with smaller more fuel-efficient engines.  Anti-lock braking and skid...
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My first experience with a motorcycle involved touching the exhaust manifold on a mid-50’s Triumph my uncle Bucky had just parked in our yard after driving from Montreal to Moncton. Of course I burned my hand but gained some valuable respect...
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Yesterday I had a vigorous massage, then a heated scarf was placed at my neck. Music of my choosing was piped in to my surroundings. I was cradled in a luxurious seat made of the finest Nappa leather. My eyes were treated to scenes of majestic...
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Last weekend while hauling a car from Montreal to Halifax, I was dreading this upcoming week. Besides income tax filing, I had to clear my storage bunker, the garage within an apartment car park where I could squirrel away up to eight vehicles.
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The other day I felt like I was back in 10th grade, before I had my driver’s license. One of my big treats then was to be allowed by my parents to start the family car before an outing and maybe, just maybe, back it up to the end of the...
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It has been ten years since I stood on the side of this infamous short stretch of road and, like before, I am silent, pensive and sad. I look at a white ‘X’ painted on the pavement in the middle of the road. It’s not huge, about a...
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I finished my last blog post by saying that I was ruined. Ruined by the ride on the back of a BMW K1300S. Ruined by boat cruises in the sunshine, sipping margaritas at dockside restaurants. Ruined by spur-of-the-moment shopping sprees with my BFF....
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I was filthy all weekend but after a while, like on an army maneuver, I just wallowed in it and pressed on with the job at hand. It wasn’t trenches or desert operations that were the basis of my grubbiness, though.  No sir, it was dust...
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