This article reflects the joy that I experience in taking the time as a retired person to meander through the less travelled rural roads, and soak up the experiences that are there. Today I enjoyed chatting with the local “coffee club” people in a rural coffee shop that I happened to venture into. The purpose […]
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Nice Instagram interview of our YES friends, Brian and Beth, who have been travelling the world for years using some surprising low cost lifestyles to help make senior life more affordable. They have lived in France, Portugal, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Ecuador, and many more. They both enjoy hiking in the mountains, and seeing new […]
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All these images were all generated using AI (Artificial Intelligence) for my first time, in less than an hour. Previously I actually commissioned an artist to created a beautiful painting related to my family heritage based on my “concept”. This process is similar, but faster, and easier. My vanNostrand ancestors left Nordstrand Island (present day […]
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We rented a fully equipped motorhome RV camper to drive for 5 days (2000 km / 1200 Miles) from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The medium sized “Class C” motorhome – sort of like the Winnebago of yesteryear, was a perfect fit for the two of us, and could actually accommodate extra people […]
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In 1980 as the Radio Shack TRS-80 became popular, and I had been selling quite a few of them in Ken’s Kiristiansen’s regular Radio Shack store in the valley, the District Manager (Ken Bechervaise / Pat Cramer ) suggested that I apply to Manage the new Tandy Computer Center that they were opening in Halifax […]
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I enjoyed my decade long career with Radio Shack in the 70’s. I started as a sales clerk in a regular store #5603 in New Minas, Nova Scotia around 1975 as I was finishing high school. This progressed into me becoming the first manager of the Tandy Computer Center in Halifax in 1980, until about […]
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