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Polar Bear Madness
Anyone interested in a quick dip in the ocean at Centennial Beach's Polar Bear Swim inTsawwassen on January 1st. This is an excellent way to start the New Year in Madness, also an excellent cure for a hangover!!

Polar Bear Swim (A.K.A. Insane dash into ocean)
January 1, Boundary Bay Regional Park (Tsawwassen)
Registration: 12:00 noon, Swim: 1:00pm
For more information or a ride email me: tri_matthew@yahoo.ca

Today is the return of my traveling friend.
Tonight is eight months of repressed drinking with my two best friends Even and Scotty.

Travel, to me, is a way of learning more about, not just the world around us, but ourselves. It is when one travels that one's truest self emerges. One of the best ways to learn more about someone is to take a trip with them.

The Wuerzburg Crew

Pearl of Wisdom...What happens when four Engineering Physics students and one Physics student find an office chair??
Click here to find out!!(Movie by Billy Lau)

Thanks for the laugh guys
Cheers

Berchtesgarden Slide Show

CYCLING IN THE RAIN

Stay warm. Time to get those arm/leg warmers out of the closet (or buy some if they're not part of your wardrobe yet). Gloves, shoe covers, and rain jackets are also very worthy investments. Dress in layers so that you won't broil climbing Snake Hill or freeze going down Centre Street. Remember, if you wear 2 jerseys, you'll have 6 pockets!

Stay dry. Fenders are a good idea. Neoprene clothing also keeps you quite dry. Goretex is great, if you can afford it. Those plastic bags are a cheap/good way to keep your feet dry.

This is the Rue de Rivoli, an extremely long, straight street, that runs parallel to the Tuileries Gardens and the Louvre Museum, in Paris, France. Rue de Rivoli is full of activity, awesome shopping and is one of my favourite places in the world.... at least so far! I first found myself here on April 29th, 2003 when I emerge from the seemingly endless staircases and escalators of the Underground into a traffic-congested street thousands of kilometres away from where I started; it was hot and blindingly bright. Never would I imagine that this place…Rue de Rivoli would create a temptation in my life that would draw me back to its origin. A desire to challenge, explore and create…to get away from everything and everyone that I had become so familiur with. Leave my comfort zone. Experience foreign cultures and create new friendships. Live like I have never lived by surrounding myself with everything foreign and unknown.

Favourite Quote from the Olympics

"Everybody has been trying to achieve a freak-of-nature status just a little bit more extreme than the next guy. But when you’re thrown into the village you are suddenly confronted with a cornucopia of ultra-honed bodies twisted by the demands of sport."

The Road Less Traveled Lyrics
Artist: George Strait

There's a road a winding road that never ends
Full of curves lessons learned at every bend
Goin's rough unlike the straight and narrow
It's for those who go against the grain
Have no fear dare to dream of a change live to march to the beat of a
different drummer
And it all might come together
And it all might come unraveled
On the road less traveled

For the road less traveled ain't for the faint of heart
For those who choose to play it safe and never stray too far
Me I want to live my life and one day leave my mark
And it all might come together
And it all might come unraveled
On the road less traveled

I've chosen a pathway I may not endure
One thing's for certain nothing for sure
And it all might come together
And it all might come unraveled
On the road less traveled

For the road less traveled ain't for the faint of heart
For those who choose to play it safe and never stray too far
Me I want to live my life and one day leave my mark
And it all might come together
And it all might come unraveled
On the road less traveled

There's a road winding road that never ends