Happy New Year! Here is an eclectic post, to get me started again after a long hiatus.
We arrived back in Canada in late August and have been very busy adapting to our current reality of working, job searching, volunteering, school, activities & socializing. Adapting to this faster paced lifestyle after 2.5 years of the pandemic has been hard for the parents, but we take comfort in seeing the kids thrive back at home. Thankfully, we did not ruin their lives by taking the trip as may have been suggested once or twice!
As the COVID-19 pandemic soldiers on, we are a year behind our peers in adapting to the “living with COVID” phase here in Nova Scotia. We managed to avoid infection until early December, but we were fortunate to be able to contain the spread to one member of our household. Adapting to life at home sure would be easier without this elephant in the room, but here we are.
We spent the last four months of our trip cycle touring from Austria, through parts of Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, France and England. It was such an as awesome experience overall. Can’t wait to get back on the EuroVelo and other routes in the future.
Rather than continuing on with the chronological approach to my posts, I have divided up my photos into categories that may evolve into posts. Who knows when I’ll be able to write about all of this, but here is the list of potential topics:
For today, I’ll share a few vending machine photos. Most of the machines were located in walkable areas, except for the pizza machines, which were often in parking lots. I like how the dispensers could help small business owners reach more customers and/or keep consumers in smaller towns, rather than having to travel to shop. Bicycle tire inner tubes on the EuroVelo routes could really make someone’s day!
That’s all for now, except to say that I am on chapter two of the book “Curbing Traffic, The Human Case for Fewer Cars in Our Lives” by Canadians Melissa & Chris Bruntlett, and absolutely loving it. There may have been tears of joy. Read it!
Carbon conscious COVID dodging family travel 
Vending machines don’t seem to be that big in Canada/US (other than soda), I wonder why. Business opportunity? I wonder if the rules are different. What would sell on the streets of Halifax? Or would the machines just get banged up every night after 2AM?
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I like them for smaller communities, though perhaps some small businesses in cities could benefit from their use after hours. I think we got baguette from a machine attached to a bakery once.
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