Patrick Lam

Thoughts and travels of Patrick Lam

Three full days in Yellowknife

7 May 2022

Checking off another territory from my Canada list; brief visit to Yellowknife (NWT) and successful aurora spotting.

April: between Winter and Spring; more travels

1 May 2022

End of term. Still avoiding COVID. Getting out of Waterloo while there is no teaching: travels to Yellowknife and New Zealand.

March: first and last full month of teaching in Winter 2022, and some trips

1 Apr 2022

People are pretending it’s back to normal, but the sixth wave has started in Quebec.

24 Hours in Saskatchewan

26 Mar 2022

Saskatchewan is surprisingly scenic. About giant eggs and porcupines (in Alberta), another Blue Mountain, aurora borealis, and just one ditch.

February: with short escapes to Quebec

1 Mar 2022

Back to normal? Well, maybe, except that there are still a lot of cases out there.

Warm lights in the Airbnb bedroom FTW

20 Feb 2022

Sometimes I’m ridiculous. Tales of swapping light bulbs.

January: a whole month in K-W

1 Feb 2022

Hey, I have a place of my own in Waterloo. Back to (virtual) school.

New Zealand Restaurants

24 Jan 2022

I looked up two years’ of dining history and collected all the New Zealand restaurants I thought were worth mentioning.

December: back in Canada and not loving it

3 Jan 2022

Last monthly summary from 2021. Homeless during a pandemic, but fortunate enough that it’s just a small inconvenience.

Urban living (3/3): Wellington

28 Dec 2021

Part III: What about Wellington? An unexpected 2 years less a month in Wellington, NZ.