Boston Marathon weekend had finally arrived. One and a half years after Van qualified back in October of 2015, we set off to Boston for the long Easter weekend. ~Friday~ The sun was coming up to a clear day as the plane took off from Billy Bishop airport; a sign of the weather that we would have for the whole weekend. On arrival in Boston and collecting our rental car, we headed to South Boston, which Van termed "SoBo" (probably incorrectly) and grabbed some ...

We've certainly stepped it up in terms of activities over the last few weeks! Since our last post, we've done the following around town: 3 NBA games with the Raptors facing off against the Wizards, Steven Adams and OKC, and the 76ers. We even made it onto the big screens at the OKC game, which was pretty cool! Book of Mormon with Mexican with James and Mengfei - Great show! Passenger concert - awesome concert, despite the awfully sad songs thrown in there ...

VERY full on couple of months since the last post! After our trip to Mexico, Matt headed down to Argentina for a successful climb up Aconcagua with his climbing buddy Malachi and Van headed back to Toronto for two weeks before jetting down to New Zealand for Tahlia's wedding in Auckland. We were both scheduled to arrive back on Sunday January 22, but Matt got delayed by 1.5 days in Brazil. All hell broke lose when we got back with Van's busy season in full swin...

After getting off the mountain a day before we expected, we arrived at the CAPU bus terminal on Tuesday evening for 3.5 days of fun in Mexico City! We checked into Barefoot Stayinn Hostel in La Condesa and then wondered around the nearby streets looking for dinner. Van managed to find a crossfit across the street which was very convenient and scheduled to go for a workout the next morning. We stopped into a chocolate place called La Chocolaterie and had a coffee...

Day 1: Travel from Toronto to Tlachichuca. Start elevation: 76m. End elevation: 2,760m. Our flight to Mexico City was a red-eye from Toronto leaving shortly before midnight on Thursday evening. Fortunately, we were both able to doze for most of the approx. 5 hour flight. On arrival at the airport, we found our way to the bus terminal where we ran into our first "must speak Spanish" situation when trying to purchase bus tickets to the first stop in Puebla. We ma...