My Wet Coast Life

Link: http://worldsunluckiesttraveller.ca/index.asp?init_story=235

For some odd reason, Mother Nature and me don't always get along and severe weather events tend to follow me wherever i go. When i was in Kenya, my visa was about to expire and i needed to leave. Mother Nature i guess didn't want me to leave and decided to throw some of the heaviest recorded rains at us and turn everything into a giant mud pit and so began my adventure back to Canada....with mother nature waiting for me to land to continue her weather madness.

Now why am i talking about this you ask?
Well...i came across Travel Guards Unluckiest Traveller Competition. This contest allows people like me to post the unluckiest travel incidents and get voted on and guess what? They accepted my story!

So to anyone reading this, check out my story about my unluckiest trip back from Kenya, register on worldsunluckiesttraveller.ca and vote for me. Each month, the story with the most votes wins a HD camera and goes into the final draw for a $10,000 vacation (which i would definitely like).

So pass this on to your friends and help me become the World's Unluckiest Traveller!
Voting ends February 28th, 2010.

Also, do you have any unlucky travel story? Do you think my story is an unlucky one?

You can also submit to worldsunluckiesttraveller.ca to see if you can win with your story. The have draws every month for the HD Camera and then the winners have a chance at the $10,000 Vacation.

Link: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nasa-one-man-stealth-plane

Every week day, i get into my car at o'dark o'clock for the daily commute to work. Depending on traffic and weather, it can be as quick as 15 minutes or take over 1 hour +. 90% of the commute is highway driving but there are still people that drive well below the speed limit in the fast lane or are to fearful to pass a big rig and in turn hold everyone up.

How do i get around this? Well, i looked into teleporting but the idea of being split up into tiny molecules and essentially "faxed" to your location has drawbacks...if you ever sent a fax, you would know and the movie Timeline has a good example of what could be achieved, but this is a movie magic example and i am not even touching Star Trek...

Now today i came across NASA's new personal flying suit called "Puffin". The Puffin has a cruising speed of 240km/h and the ability to get up to 480km/h and a range of about 80km/h. They have plans to bump that up to 240km range in the next couple years. Well, that suits my commute distance and would make for a much quicker, and more enjoyable commute. Plus, being powered by electric motors, it is also environmentally friendly.

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