The Briar Patch

I lied, it is clear I wont have a chance to get back to a travel blog this year 2025. Hell it might be 2026 before this is even up! So ending on some more random thoughts. Mostly unedited and well for real last one like this I am doing for a month. At least. New goal for 2026 travel blog out every 2 weeks until last trip is done. Want it to be done before I go to Spain this year!! Oh I am posting this January 2nd. A big chunk right in the middle is Stranger Things with some massive spoilers if you haven't watched final season be warned.  Hockey ended shitty. We finished 3rd in our div. For once it felt like the right div, winning as much as losing. We got a wild card round Bye, then quarter final single game elimination we played a team with only 2 wins. One we handled easily BUT no one showed up. Not figuratively, really. We had a tiny bench and they beat us. The legit season we could have made a good playoff run we lost. I can't say much, I didn't play I was working. I mi...

Start this entry off with something fun and nice. We went down to Victoria for a week for holidays and it was awesome. Beautiful weather considering it is middle of September. Lined up a ton of activities. Whale watching, haunted tours, the sky walk and a bunch more. You can check out my yelp for a ton of reviews. Tavis P. There if you want. I am not going to go into detail but it was a great trip. What I will say is times have changed. Pre 2007 I went with some friends and we stayed in a "hotel" that a friend of a friend down there was the manager of. I say "Hotel" because the mattresses were on the floor, it was dirty and there was a skeezy bar in the basement. We stayed there cause that was all we could afford. Rumor was it had been a brothel that was just shut down before.... This time we stayed in a place that was $450 / night. In all honesty I could never afford that BUT points program helped. We had a valet lol & a king sized bed instead of mattresses on ...