Week Sauce: Adios Montréal

Posted: January 30th, 2010 | Author: Shawn | Filed under: week sauce | 4 Comments »

Well kids, after 13 months in Montréal, I fly out on Tuesday. The apartment is almost completely empty, and everything I own (now) is crammed into my backpack. In a day and a half I’ll be officially, and intentionally, homeless. I enjoy how my achievements sound quite a bit like failures; It keeps my naysayers on their toes.

I summed up what I know of my plan previously, and I think that’s still accurate so far. From here I’m off for a night in Vancouver, then over to Victoria for the rest of February. I can hardly wait! I’m also going to make a point of getting down to good old Seattle while I’m in the area. The big unknown is what group I’ll be able to sign up with in order to volunteer in Haiti. I guess we’ll see how it all plays out.

As usual this week’s summary is a compilation of good articles from around the web, plus whatever other random crap I have on hand.

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Week Sauce: Now In HD!

Posted: January 23rd, 2010 | Author: Shawn | Filed under: week sauce | 7 Comments »

In this week’s wrap up I’ll share some of the usual good travel article finds and maybe a new blog or what not. You know how it is, a bit of this, a bit of that. I also have my first HD video to share. This new camera I bought a couple months ago has this little “video” button on it. I figure if I paid for the button I’m hella pushing it. So I pushed it. On the bright side, since a video must surely be worth a thousand pictures, there’s no crappy phonetography pics this week. You’re welcome.

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