The Retired Dude

Technology, Food, Travel and Life from the Perspective of a Retired Dude

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  • Pyramid Lake Jasper

    During our trip to Jasper with Sam and Nial I snapped this picture. This place always amazes me be it summer, fall or winter. It’s one of Jenn and I’s favourite places and we pretty much always take a drive… Continue reading

  • A Tech Legend

    A Tech Legend I first heard about Paul Allen passing when on the treadmill watching CBC News, I knew who he was, but then I began to think in a few years nobody will remember him. The name Bill Gates… Continue reading

    A Tech Legend
  • AirBnB – Best of Hotel and Home

    A number of years ago we signed up for AirBnB, it was a new service at that time and we were basically just seeing what it was all about. It looked like an interesting way to take a trip and… Continue reading

    AirBnB – Best of Hotel and Home
  • 6k

    Was not expecting snow this morning for my 6k run, but looked really nice… of course sun would be even better. Continue reading

  • Banksy artwork self-destructs after selling for $1.4M | CBC News

    This is was of those awesome things that happens in the world once in a while, who would have expected this and the faces on people watching. I think it is obvious that Banksy does not need the money and… Continue reading

  • Pisa

    For some reason this did not get posted back in 2018 when we did our trip to Italy, better late than never. We never did do a fill blog of the trip. Next time!! Pisa was our first stop on… Continue reading

    Pisa
  • Magoo’s Landing

    That was a tough. Did some major work in hills last night and almost won a turkey. Continue reading

  • Back…

    Been a while since I posted a blog post, the last one was the start of our trip to Europe this past summer, then suddenly the trip was over and we where home without any other posts being made, sorry… Continue reading

    Back…
  • We are off

    For the first time in a while flying did not mean getting up at some crazy hour of the morning as our flight to Calgary was not until 12:20, so we arose around 8am and decided to go for a… Continue reading

  • Getting Close

    Just under 6 months ago I did not thing we would be prepping for you summer vacation, but after quad bypass surgery and the ok from my Dr in February, we started to book and here we are, 4 days… Continue reading

    Getting Close
  • Getting There

    It has been 14 weeks today since I had my bypass surgery, on one hand it seems such a long time a go, but on the other some of it feels like yesterday, just looked at my watch and they… Continue reading

    Getting There
  • Ward Pt II

    **I had written this post a while back but slipped into the “not blogging” state of mind and so I have wrapped this one up for anyone out there who is following.** Monday 6:15am, door to room opens and light… Continue reading

    Ward Pt II