Arizona, Arizona, Arizona. What do you think of when you think of Arizona? My grand-mother lived there for a decade, so I think of urban sprawl and cacti. I guess most people think of the Grand Canyon. And the OK Corral. In any case, my girlfriend and some friends and I we're going to pick up some new things to think about. We were going on an Arizonan roadtrip. My girlfriend is a shutterbug, so why don't you check out the sweet pics.
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I am one of those people who don't take holidays, and yet complains about that very fact constantly to anyone whithin earshot. Mostly because I don't like leaving my shop behind, but also because I enjoy complaining. My business partners told me they had had enough and so it was decided for me- holidays before I implode into an intergalactic ball of nothingness.
Like all good holidays I decided to travel with my good friend's wife. In the heat of the midday sun we placed Montreal firmly in our rearview mirror. Being a rare breed of flying peacock, Lara and I need to spread our wings, and to do so we decided to head down to the White Mountains in New Hampshire. About flying peacocks, you need to know they are indecisive. During our heated debates about party invitations, and well on our way to beautiful New Hampshire we had an about-face and realized that the soothing waters of Maine would do our fragile souls some (more) profound healing.
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Florida is a very popular winter destination for us cold-stricken Quebecers. By March, we’ve already had 4 months of winter and have at least one more month of it before it all melts away. It’s only natural that we seek to escape our frigid fate, if just for a week. And so we head en masse for the sun-drenched beaches of the sunshine state.
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Dans le cadre de la série Partagez et économisez. Le concours est toujours en vigueur!
Ce printemps, je suis allée pour la première fois de ma vie faire une randonnée dans les Adirondacks. Quoi ? Pour la première fois vous dites ? Tout d’abord, pour ma défense, je n’ai pas de voiture et je n’ai pas le profil type du randonneur, ce qui fait en sorte qu’on ne pense jamais à moi pour ce genre d’activité. J’aime bien marcher, la nature et les défis, mais l’occasion ne s’était donc jamais présentée. Trêve d’excuses, mon copain me propose quatre montagnes parmi lesquelles je devais choisir pour ma première grande rando. J’ai choisi le 16e sommet le plus élevé des Adirondacks : le mont Wright. Voici donc ce que j’avais comme données avant mon départ : il s’agit d’un sentier difficile d’une distance totale de 11,3 kilomètres qui devrait nous prendre 4 h 30 aller-retour.
At the beginning of the year, I went to Arizona.
A part of Arizona
The idea was complicated, not simple. My grand-mother used to live in Phoenix. She moved recently to be closer to the family. She still has her home and car there. The car however, was not running properly. My Dad brought it to the mechanic's and was given an estimate of 5 000$! That's a lot of money. Especially for a 20 year-old car.
As luck would have it, my cousin Frank dropped by one day and we started discussing the problem. I was eager to get his feedback as he's already taken a Toyota 4Runner apart, only to rebuild it. This, in my book, makes him a car expert.
This is what a car expert looks like
He said we were getting taken advantage of and that everything that had to be done was rather easy and the parts plentiful on the internet. With my family, we concocted a plan to go over there with him and have him do the repairs. Yes, it would cost less to fly him over 3500 km than to go to the garage.
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