Dog + Travel – Owen Reynolds Personal blog

Let’s visit the Florida Panhandle

My parents used to live as snow birds in Gulfport, Florida, which is close the city of Tampa. I visited them at their Florida home 3 times over the years, and I really enjoyed my time there They sold their Florida home in the spring of 2024, and around Dec of 2024, I missed it!…
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Let’s make the house a jungle

You wouldn’t know it to see my house now, but I lived most of my life as a certified PLANT KILLER. Big or small, none would survive under my watch! That all changed in 2022 with the purchase of my first home. As I’ve got a long-term interest in following the ‘snow-bird’ life like my…
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THE Mind-body connection: My path to a pain free life

All aboard the pain bus As IT folks, we aren’t known for our good posture. Sitting at our desks all day, using ‘ergo’ equipment just offsets constant wrist and elbow abuse from a classic keyboard and mouse setup In 2008, while doing an IBM server install in small town Canada, the server slipped while I…
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Let’s buy an SUV

I spent a TON of time researching the purchase of my past 2 cars. Completing 29 test drives in 2021, I then hit ⏸️and resumed again in May 2022 when I bought my house, eventually ending on a Subaru WRX 2011. The WRX was a lemon 🍋, and manual transmission was no longer the right…
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Alabama & Arizona

I’ve been watching Peter Santentello’s YouTube travel channel for a few years now. Peter’s channel is part of the the reason I pay for YT, as his videos are often 1-2 hours, and I’m not keen to getting dozens of ads listening to his content (and more) each time I queue one up. On his…
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Travelling with my beast friend

June 27 to July 9th, I visited Austin and Dallas Texas for a long over-due vacation that wasn’t tied to work. As I often do, I brought my 10 LB 12 year old Maltipoo with me ; her name is Coffee bean. As a single guy since 2019, she means the world to me. Who…
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Arizona April 2022

My trip to Arizona April 7 to 14th, 2022 was a long-time coming. I’d originally wanted to go in Dec 2019. However, I decided to stay in Montreal for the holidays. 2 months later, covid-19 came in put in a wrench in any travel plans I might have had for the states for all of…
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IGEL Disrupt 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee and my next tech conference

It seems my vacation schedule is mostly driven by tech conferences these days. E2E in NY in 2018 Synergy in Atlanta, Georgia in 2019 IGEL Disrupt in Nashville, TN in 2020 All of which is great, as none of the above places i’d been to before, and each trip was exciting for personal and professional…
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