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Newest Release: How to Live Like a Rockstar (When You’re Not One) – Vol. I: The South Korea Teaching Party

Help Wanted: (No, I do not have a job for you. Not hiring, yet!)   But, it happened. There is a new book out. Yeah, I know what you are thinking, ‘It took a long time for that guy to release a second book. I thought he had retired and was just an airplane nerd now.’ Not so (though the airplane nerd part is correct). It has accidentally been eight years since the last book. I am not sure where...

Big Beaver Diaries / Extreme Adventure

Battling Venezuelan Pirates

…Captain Hook has been glorified, but I can tell you from first hand experience that Venezuelan pirates are not cool, they are not fun, you do not want to run into them, and no one has a wooden leg or a hook for a hand…

Canada / Live Transcripts

Live Transcript: McDonald’s Experience of a Lifetime

  The McDonald’s Experience of a Lifetime. -Live transcript of Not Larry during the 2023 Arctic Winter Games in Fort McMurray, Wood Buffalo. [su_dropcap]W[/su_dropcap]hen I was coming out of Mac Island I saw three people walking. One of them was wearing a jacket from Nunavut. I was going to turn towards home, but the people I saw were walking past the Morrison Center. I started thinking to myself, ‘Why are they walking? I have an empty car right now.’ It’s...

Canoe Conundrum in Canada

Big Beaver Diaries / Canada / Canadian Adventure 2019

Canoe Conundrum in Canada

At 09:08 Not Larry and I unloaded a 16’ canoe into the Clearwater River at Waterways. I was the paddle in the front and Not Larry was the paddle/rudder in the back. We rode the Clearwater to the Athabasca River and headed north. We would tackle a 50 km journey on the day. A storm would come and find us…

The Peruvian Ayahuasca Retreat - 12 Days of Healing and Hallucination

Big Beaver Diaries / Education / Extreme Adventure

The Peruvian Ayahuasca Retreat – 12 Days of Healing and Hallucination

May 1, 2019 LIM Airport Lima, Peru, South America. At about 03:00, Not Larry and I went through security at the airport in Lima, Peru. If security asks if you have any liquids of over 100 ml in your bag, you can tell them no and then you can always get a 237 ml bottle of sunscreen and a 140 ml bottle of moisturizer through the scanner with no questions asked. I got the moisturizer through Edmonton, Calgary, San Jose,...

Training Cats to Hold Their Breath Underwater

Big Beaver Diaries / Canada

Training Cats to Hold their Breath Underwater

Training Cats to Hold their Breath Underwater [su_dropcap]I[/su_dropcap]t is hard to know for sure at this point in my life, but it is possible that I was seven years old though more than likely I was probably eight. But what is for certain, is that it was in the later part of that year’s spring after I had been taking swimming lessons during the previous summer. I fell quite short of becoming a prolific swimmer but I did learn a...

The Indian Rat on My Naked Leg

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The Indian Rat on My Naked Leg

The Indian Rat on My Naked Leg. 15 February, 2013 (Cont’d).Arambol, Goa, India. …Something confused me a couple of days ago… On the edge of my bed, I had a tissue for some old-fashioned-sleeping-pill spillage, and somehow the tissue completely disappeared. That really puzzled me because it was really gone. I searched everywhere just to try to alleviate my confusion, but I truly could not find the tissue and had no understanding of where could have possibly went… Tonight right...

Visiting Cape Spear and St John's, Newfoundland

Big Beaver Diaries / Canadian Adventure 2019

Visiting Cape Spear and St John’s, Newfoundland

Cape Spear in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, is the first place in North America to make contact with the sun every morning. And the provincial capital of St John’s boasts the legendary George Street which will never let you down for entertainment. St. John’s has the most bars on one street in all of Canada. It is not hard to have fun here!

Northern Newfoundland and Fogo Island

Big Beaver Diaries / Canadian Adventure 2019

Central Newfoundland and Fogo Island

Central Newfoundland and Fogo Island. Newfoundland and Labrador. Canada. 22 August 2019. Not Larry and I woke up at 09:00 and had some old-high-school-bedroom lovin’ to start the day. F U N! We packed Beatrice and cleaned the house… Now wait a minute, that is not really accurate… Actually, I burned everything that resembled garbage in the backyard while Not Larry cleaned the house. I tried to help her out but I only seemed to be in the way, so...

Cod Fishing in Newfoundland: Pollards Point

Big Beaver Diaries / Canadian Adventure 2019

Cod Fishing in Newfoundland: Pollards Point

We were catching the fish and we were jigging them as well, meaning that sometimes we would catch the fish with hooks in their mouth when they went for the lures, but also we would just catch them in the side or the fin when we would jig and that would bring them up as well. The ocean is extremely bountiful!

Visit Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland.

Big Beaver Diaries / Canadian Adventure 2019

Visit Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland.

Visit Gros Morne National Park in Newfoundland August 13, 2019. Pollards Point, Newfoundland and Labrador. Not Larry and I got moving and out of Pollards Point at 13:00. It is tough to get going when there is so much going on all of the time and so many tasks to tackle! We left Beatrice the Bendix behind for a couple of days while we get a new rad-hose to replace the one our lady now has pin-hole through. I guess...

Traveling Northern Ontario

Big Beaver Diaries / Canadian Adventure 2019

Traveling Northern Ontario

  Traveling Northern Ontario July 30, 2019. (Cont’d) Western Ontario, Canada.  Heading east traveling Northern Ontario, we cruised on into Dryden, Ontario, a city I have really wanted to pass through since I first looked at a Canadian map as a boy. When you look at a map of Canada and see the cities in the provinces, far-western Ontario shows only Dryden. Only Dryden exists! That city name made the place feel somewhat familiar from seeing it so many times....

Traveling the Canadian Prairies

Canadian Adventure 2019

Traveling the Canadian Prairies

Traveling the Canadian Prairies. July 29, 2019. Big Beaver, Saskatchewan, Canada. I woke up at 06:45 but there was no way I could get up. Exhaustion had succeeded any chance of alertness. I fell back to sleep and woke up again at 09:00. Not Larry and I had a little slap and tickle to kick off the morning. At 11:00 we were packed up and ready to roar. I called dad who was at my brother’s house doing some farm...

My First Corvette - My Seven-Year-Old Fantasy is Here

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My First Corvette – My Seven-Year-Old Fantasy is Here!

Corvette Day – This is a short guide on how to have a crush on two girls at the same time! June 1, 2019. By the time we got moving, Gene-the-Corvette-guy had called Not Larry and told her that he would let her have the car for $500 more than her offer. I have been perusing for the right Corvette for weeks. It is time! Plus, Not Larry was making a push to help line one up. So, we made...

Sturgis Biker Rally 2018 - Journal

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Sturgis Biker Rally 2018 – Journal

Sturgis Biker Rally 2018 – Journal. 7 August 2018 ..Not Larry and I took Vern the Van to the car doctor. There has been a situation with Vern dripping oil from the cover on the rear-differential. The problem was that we needed someone to get the rounded-off fill-plug out of the rear-end (…that sounds like a perversion). It took four different places to find someone who would work on it, but someone finally took on the job. That cost $45...

Mud Bog: St. Laurent, Manitoba - Metis Days

Big Beaver Diaries / Canada

Mud Bog: St. Laurent, Manitoba – Metis Days

Mud Bog. St. Laurent, Manitoba, Canada. 5 August 2018 Last night before Not Larry and I went into the dance at the Metis Festival in St. Laurent, Manitoba, Canada, we met an indigenous man named Hammi. It turns out that Hammi is short for Hamilton. Interesting. Hammi was telling us about the mud-bog that would be taking place today and how good it has been in the previous years. Not Larry and I decided to go to it. [su_quote]Not Larry...

Big Beaver Diaries / Canada

The Lead-Up to the Birth of Errol Andersen

Happy birthday Errol! I have had this story for a couple of years and I have wanted to send this to you. Today is a good day for it! I remembered hearing dad tell the story years ago and figured it would be a pretty cool birthday present.  The Lead-Up to the Birth of Errol Andersen -Transcript by my father, Milson Harris We put on this…I don’t know if it was the barn dance at our place or not…but we...

Big Beaver Diaries / Canada

Mom – A Tribute to a Fascinating Lady

Mom Roxene Clementine Beler Harris Swayn 7 March 1946 – 16 June 2018 The Tributes: Larry-Vivian Kabrud  She was an amazing lady for sure! Dawn Fister She was a truly gifted woman that could do anything!! Randi Mc I remember her from the Big Beaver Rodeo. She had a booth with beaded bandannas…best craft ever for a busy little girl. Trina Korbo It was a honour to know her HUGS Carmel Thurlow I remember her love for gardening and her flowers!! Kurt Thurlow I have one...