Thoughts on ICBC’s “Enhanced Care” Model

In May 2021, ICBC (BC’s government-run car insurance crown corporation) made a major change to how they deal with injuries and vehicular damage resulting from car accidents. As a result of my April 2024 crash, I’ve experienced the full gamut …

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Near Death

I have few recollections of what occurred at the time of the accident, and recall little of the days immediately following it. What follows then is the best I can do describing my accident of April 14th, 2024, and lengthy, ongoing recovery. I plan to return to this post from time to time to provide recovery – likely monthly – updates (at least for as long as there is something to still report), as that piece is still very much a work-in-progress.

A photo of Vernazza Italy from the Cinque Terre hiking trail.

Mainland Europe 2023

In 2023 we continued our quest to make up what we lost when the pandemic broke in 2020. Little did I know COVID would play a sizeable role in my experience this year too, but more on that a little …

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Galway

We were originally going to spend a couple weeks in Ireland in spring 2020 to start nine weeks in Europe, but we all know what happened to travel in the early pandemic. As such, four nights in Dublin and a …

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two pints of Guinness Stout as nitro foam settles, at Guinness Storehouse rooftop bar

Dublin

Being of Irish and Scottish descent, the Irish leg of this trip had always been my priority for coming to the British Isles. We were originally going to spend a couple weeks in Ireland in spring 2020 to start nine …

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Edinburgh & Aviemore

It was about two and a half years coming, but we finally got back a little of what COVID stole from us in 2020. This post covers six nights in Scotland, after stops in London and York, in early August 2022. …

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Cambridge & York

It was about two and a half years coming, but we finally got back a little of what COVID stole from us in 2020. This post covers a day trip we took to Cambridge from London, and two nights in York …

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London

It was about two and a half years coming, but we finally got back a little of what COVID stole from us in 2020. Not nearly what we originally planned over the nine weeks of May and June that year, …

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Gone, but never forgotten

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. — Dr. Seuss It had been nearly nine years since I experienced this. Not only had I forgotten the intensity of the pain, but also the flood of emotions that hits …

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2021: marginally better than 2020

As I contemplated writing a journal post again over the past few days, it occurred to me that I couldn’t remember when I last wrote anything. Checking my site, it turned out it’s been exactly a year since I wrote …

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