2012 has been an interesting year...Leslie got a new job and is now working for BC Transplant as an Organ Donation Coordinator and Organ Donation Specialist.
Cheryl continues to do well in her police career and we got engaged. Wedding will be next August 2013. More info please read below.
Cheryl and I met in 1997 in Bellingham, Washington. We kept in touch over the year via the internet plus flying back and forth. Before we both knew it I moved all the way across the country to a new country no less in march 1998 and been here ever since. I, meaning Leslie grew up in New York on Long Island where her family still remains except my brother.
Went to College in upstate NY and grad school back on Long Island where I got my Masters Degree in Social Work. In 1999 I started working as an Intensive Care Unit Social Worker at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver, BC and loved my job after all those years.
Cheryl grew up in the lower mainland of BC and many of her family members are here as well. Beautiful place to grow up and go to school. Throughout Cheryl's teenage years and adulthood she worked for her mother's family business. However, at the ripe old age of 35 she decided to embark upon a career in law enforcement which she has been enjoying for over 5 years. Cheryl has found a passion within the Police force working with kids in schools.
We have been together as partner's for 15 years and after Cheryl graduated Depot (Police Training) we both got motorcycles and our licenses. I grew up on bikes and Cheryl always wanted to learn to ride. Learning was easy for Cheryl and getting back on a bike for me just made sense. Cheryl thinks I am obsessed with bikes but to be honest once she is on the road I can't stop her.
Cheryl loves video games, I love wild life, Cheryl dreams about white sandy tropical beaches, I dream about seeing the polar bears in Hudson Bay, Manitoba.
Opposites attract and we both share a passion for adventure motorcycle touring. We learned this after buying our first 2010 BMW F650GS bikes. We travel well together making sure we are both taking care of ourselves. Cheryl is the brains, mechanic, navigator and packer, I am the organizer/planner.
Cheryl is the quiet one, I am the loud New Yorker. Cheryl loves video games, I love live web cams featuring Bald Eagles, Falcons, osprey's and Owls. In the end it seems to work.
This is so small that it certainly would pack away much better than either the Jetbroil or the MSR Whisperlite International (which can use the bike’s gas). Winter is here and time for both attempting to make one and using it in the next winter’s power failure! Would have been great to have one on hand during the 1998 ice storm in eastern ON and QC when I went 19 days, 7.5 hours without any electricity. Luckily I had a propane range top and a woodstove…so the parties were at my place! Again, I was lucky to have been to the liquor store the weekend before for a big re-supply! Coal oil lamps lit the house, The piano and banjo got used a lot which restarted my musical interest, alive and well to this day. Only really neat gadget of today that would have been really handy then is the crank radios we have now. Some retailers, when we were able to get out on the roads, took advantage of the storm and upped the prices of batteries as some did for generators as well. The army confiscated one guy’s stash of generators for which he had inflated prices! Many good deeds were done to balance these sleazy tactics by some.
Thank you so much for posting this link!!
Sue
I first heard about that stove a few years ago on a forum but the video makes more sense than the written description. It looks like it puts our quite a bit of heat.