2006 was year that started with good friends having a baby and ended with good friends having a baby and a visit to my Grandfather for the first time since he passed away.

In between I worked at a new job, took a motorcycle to California for my 35th birthday, bicycled to work almost every day, met some phenomenal and astonishing new people, took a very good and informative course at Simon Fraser University, logged significant quality time on Bowen Island and played a really small but enjoyable part in the lives of two other new babies — Benjamin and Elizabeth, and cheered as my friends had their own personal triumphs from taking part in marathons to triathlons to getting married.

If you’d asked me three years ago I wouldn’t have guessed it, but the year I turned 35 has been the best year of my life.

There’s a whole new year in town, and this means a whole new list of things to get done.

With baby Kuxdorf born, but my departure scheduled, I’ll probably need to make another trip to Toronto this year to meet the little man (in addition to another expected arrival) most likely in September or October this time.

Other plans include an off continent jaunt to drink a bottle of wine, finally cycling the Kettle Valley Railway, camping at least once at Garibaldi Lake, camping on Orca’s Island going the whole way from Vancouver by bicycle, paddling the Bowron Lakes Canoe Route with a bunch of friends, working with my camera quite a bit more, spending more quality time with the children in my life (not too mention their parents), a new laptop (but not a motorcycle…yet), continuing to focus on success at my current job while also getting back on track with my long term career goals and getting back into the kind of physical shape I’d like to be in for the long term.

It seems like a long list, but a year is a long time and I can’t wait to get started.

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