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Jonathan Hopwood
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Architect. Cook. Traveler. Cancer. Year of the Monkey. Spurs and Jets fan. Beer drinker. Food lover. Not necessarily in that order.
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We've been looking for Afrian wild dogs for about 10 years now (sort of). Was 2025 the year we finally took this species off our "must see" list? #FiveYearsProject #SouthAfrica #Kruger @gadventures.bsky.social

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Painted Dogs
In August of 2025, we visited sub-Saharan Africa for the first time. We flew through New York and Johannesburg and landed in Victoria Falls,...
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November 16, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Tracking down ruins of the very thing that opened up the Canadian Rockies to tourists like me.

Last blog post about Canada (for this year). South Africa up next. #FiveYearsProject #Canada @altparkscanada.bsky.social

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Train Kept A-Rollin
How great an idea are national parks? Whether it's in the United States or Canada or anywhere else around the world, what could be more insp...
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September 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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We hit six Parks Canada National Parks in five days in late June and early July. Number five didn't start out so promising...

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Top Of The World
Through our first four full days in the Canadian Rockies in late June and early July we had visited or traveled through four Parks Canada Na...
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September 5, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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Name a Canadian food. ANY Canadian food. I know you said poutine. #Canada #FiveYearsProject #yahoostampede @calgarystampede.bsky.social

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August 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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We visited both a glacier in Canada and Canada's Glacier National Park this summer. But we didn't visit a glacier in Glacier. #Canada #FiveYearsProject #ColumbiaIcefield @altparkscanada.bsky.social

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I Melt With You
We visited six Parks Canada National Parks in our week or so west of Calgary at the beginning of summer this year: Banff , Yoho, Kootenay , ...
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August 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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We visited six National Parks in Canada in late June and early July. Best park? Kootenay. Here's why. @altparkscanada.bsky.social #Canada #FiveYearsProject #bear

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Dandelion
No those aren't dandelions. They are buffalo berries. In Kootenay National Park. This post eventually will discuss a dandelion or two. Just ...
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August 8, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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I was super excited to go to Canada and paddle a canoe for the first time. Or maybe not. #Canada #kayak #FiveYearsProject

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That's A Paddlin'
As of my 57th birthday (late June of this year), I had never, ever set foot or sat butt in a canoe in my life. At least I don't think I had....
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August 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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Yoho was almost our lost Parks Canada national park. But then it wasn't. #Yoho #ParksStories #FiveYearsProject @altparkscanada.bsky.social

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Even The Losers
Our plan for the six Parks Canada National Parks that we visited this summer just west of Calgary was pretty simple. New day, new park. We p...
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July 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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We finally scheduled a vacation in Canada. First stop: Banff National Park. Let's see what all the fuss about this Lake Louise is, shall we? #Canada #Banff @altparkscanada.bsky.social #FiveYearsProject

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Blue Canadian Rockies
So we finally made it to Canada.  A four day workweek, an early Friday morning flight out of Dulles and we were on the ground in Calgary at ...
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July 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Americans are stupid.

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Why Donald Trump is facing doubts in the ‘manosphere’ | CNN Politics
Some popular comedians and podcasters who helped fuel Donald Trump’s victory — and the young men who listen to them — have been criticizing the president on multiple fronts.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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It always is…

#FiveYearsProject #Canada
July 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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After 12 years of traveling really intentionally, I finally made visiting Canada a priority. Why on Earth did I wait so long??? We all make mistakes, what can I say? @calgary.ca @timhortonsofficial.bsky.social #Canada #FiveYearsProject

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O Canada
Before I hit the "Publish" button on this post today, I had written exactly one piece in the last 12 years about time that I had spent in Ca...
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July 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Is the Fate of Whitebark Pine in the Beak of Clark's Nutcracker? (U.S. National Park Service)
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June 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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One more year in the books. On to year 58. Here's what the last year has been like travel-wise. #birthday #FiveYearsProject

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57
Today is my 57th birthday. It's been one of the most challenging years of my life and I mean that in a number of ways. Family-wise, my 57t...
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June 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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What’s for dinner? What else? Tacos in honor of our chief TACO. #TACO
June 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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I will never like Boston the way I love New York.
June 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Last Japan post (for 2025). Think gumboil machines are great in the US? Check out Japan's gashapon!!!! #Japan #gashapon #FiveYearsProject

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Gashapon
This is my last Japan post from our 2025 Tokyo trip. Here's hoping it won't be another seven years before we make it back over there. But th...
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June 5, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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May 31, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Our 2025 Japan trip was spent mostly in Tokyo. But mostly is not all. We had to get out of town for at least a half a day. Hello, sweet potato town!!! #FiveYearsProject #Japan #sweetpotatoes

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Sweet Potato Town
The planning for our 2025 Japan trip started way back in March of 2024 with a hotel reservation for eight nights in Tokyo. That hotel bookin...
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May 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Americans are stupid.

And yes, you did vote to deport moms.

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May 29, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A visit to Japan means a few more goshuin in our gosuhin-cho. This time with twists. #Japan #goshuin #FiveYearsProject @visitjapan.bsky.social

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Goshuin-Cho Update
Warning: complaining coming. For as long as I can remember in my life, I have been a collector. Football cards. Comic books. Stamps. Star Wa...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Our first two visits to Japan featured multiple visits to many of the country's Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines. 2025 was no exception to that rule. #Japan #temples #shrines #radishes

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More Temples, More Shrines
Yes, the cover picture of this post is a stack of daikon radishes. Read on! On each of our first two visits to Japan (I'm counting last year...
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May 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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We should be able to charge doctors and dentists for our time when they don’t keep their time slots. Been waiting 50 minutes after my 10:30 appointment. How are you an hour behind this early in the day???
May 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Visited Japan and came home with a hanko. Don't know what a hanko is? Read this:

#hanko #Tokyo #Japan #FiveYearsProject #HankoLand

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Inkan / Hanko
Sometimes when I am getting prepared to travel, I read books about wherever I am headed to get myself psyched up or in the mood or whatever ...
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April 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Japan is a culinary wonderland and we didn't take advantage on this trip. But we did deep dive ramen a little bit. #ramen #FiveYearsProject #Tokyo #Yokohama

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Ramen
The last time I spent a week or more in Japan, I came home and wrote an almost unconscionably long post about all the food we ate: gyoza,...
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April 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM