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Travel

Travel has always had a place in my life from the time I was a boy until today. In 1998, Yim joined me on the adventure and our big trips are still to come. I enjoy writing about them and using my photography to illustrate them simply as a way of recording a life well lived. I hope you find something you enjoy.

Life & Stories Travel

James Bay, Victoria

In September 2000, Yim and I moved to Vancouver Island. I had been headhunted by an advertising agency called Copeland Communications and offered a considerable increase (+25%) in salary over what Chrysler/BBDO had just offered me, for whom I…

October 15, 2000
Hiking Travel

Blue Creek Village, Belize

Blue Creek is a village in the Toledo District of southern Belize. It is a Mopan village, an indigenous, sub-ethnic group of the Maya who speak Kekchi, and home to about 300 residents. The community lies along flat roads, spanning…

February 15, 1999
Sailing & Scuba Diving Travel

Glovers Atoll

Glover’s Atoll is a partially submerged atoll located off the southern coast of Belize, approximately 45 kilometres from the mainland. It forms part of the outermost boundary of the Belize Barrier Reef, and is one of its three atolls,…

January 15, 1999
Sailing & Scuba Diving Travel

Grand Cayman Island

On December 30, 1997, I left to go to Grand Cayman Island. A friend of mine had contacted me and wanted someone to house sit her condo for a month while she was visiting Scotland. I had three weeks…

February 15, 1998
Sailing & Scuba Diving Travel

Blue Grace

Blue Grace was a bit of a dream for me. After returning from an eighteen month project on the island of St. Martin in 1987, where I had been introduced to big open water sailing between the islands of…

August 15, 1994
Travel

St. Vincent and the Grenadines

In January of 1989, I visited St. Vincent and the Grenadines to do some sailing and scuba diving. I needed some big water sailing experience on my own and thought that down here, I could sail between a few…

February 15, 1989
Travel

Marathon Key

Marathon is located in the Middle Keys – about 110 miles south of Miami. Most people fly into either Miami or Ft Lauderdale, rent a car and drive down. It takes approximately 2.5 hours from Ft Lauderdale airport. Since…

October 15, 1988
Creative Direction / Marketing Travel

St. Martin, FWI

1985 – 1986 – In 1985, I spotted a small ad in the Montreal Gazette looking for an Art Director & Production Manager to help create the very first magazine for the island of St. Martin and thought, ‘That…

June 15, 1987
Sailing & Scuba Diving Travel

Martinique

Martinique is very much a Caribbean Island, but with a difference. When you touch down at the Aimé Césaire airport, you are officially on French soil. In 1946, this former colony was named an Overseas Department of France, and…

March 15, 1985