Canadian Rockies: Climbing and Culinary Adventures
September 19, 2025
Episode Notes
Hey, good morning, sir.
Good morning, how are you doing? I Great.
What about you? Can't complain.
It's, uh, the typhoon's coming, I don't know, it's, it's.
Unknown rain, wind, and sun, but I'm good.
I'm good, I'm good.
How was uh how was your trip to Canada? It was adventurous, it was hard, and it was really good.
Adventurous, hard and really good.
Yeah.
Let's, let's let's start with the adventurous part.
Did you go climbing? I went climbing for 3 days.
Uh, in the Rocky Mountains.
In the Rocky Mountains, we went up high.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How, how high? Is high.
Oh, probably about 4 or 500 m high.
All right.
Yeah, like you, you climbed, you climbed up 400 or 500.
That's right.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, it's great.
And then Not hiking, this is rock climbing.
Rock climbing, if you fall without the rope, you're in trouble.
Wow.
We had ropes to hold it.
Yeah, yeah, and you were there with your kids.
My two boys were with me.
It was, it was my big uh show my boys, my former life.
You're forming life as a as a daredevil rock climber.
As a, as a Canadian, when I lived in Canada, this is what I did.
As a, as a Canadian, so that's Daredevil rock climber is synonymous with Canadian.
For me it is.
All right.
All right.
And, and they enjoyed it.
Well, my younger son got scared, but he also looked at it as a personal challenge.
He said, I'm not gonna back down, and he overcame it.
So it was a growing point for him, and he's decided he doesn't want to go rock climbing again, but he's really glad that he did it.
Yeah, yeah, understood, understood.
And how is everything else? You, you visit family at uh Canadian food, whatever that is in your definition, which I'm sure is different than mine.
Our Canadian food was pretty varied.
We were eating, I was being treated to dinners at different uh family houses, and it was all quite different and all very Canadian, really scrumptious.
Scrumptious being um um a prairie boy that you are, my image of prairie food is just beef.
So I, I imagine all you ate was beef every day.
Well, tell me, tell me I'm wrong.
I, I, I'd love to say you're wrong, but no, you aren't.
We had, we didn't have beef every day, but there was a lot of meat on the menu.
Yeah.
And my boys, uh, my biological father had a, a big, um, what do you call it? Barbecue for us.
And he had the biggest steaks that I've ever eaten.
And my boys were eating the steaks too, and they were surprised at how enormous they were.
Did you guys each get your own steak? That's right, we each got this enormous steak.
it's not.
We're we're not talking Japanese style where you're sharing a plate of slices of steak or or a barbecue steak, and we're not talking like getting a little piece of steak.
You each got a full steak steak.
Yeah, on the bone.
And you had.
On the bone, T-bone, T-bone.
Wow, and you had no problem eating the whole thing.
I, all of us, we finished it off, we polished it off.
And what did you have with your steak, or was it just steak and nothing else? No, no, no, no, there was, uh, we had appetizers, um, his, his wife is from Indonesia, so we had kind of harumaki.
Uh, in, oh yeah, spring rolls, spring rolls, yeah, and then beef roll.
What? Beef spring rolls.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Something else, I don't know, I didn't probably shrimp.
Yeah.
And then there was uh corn, and there was, honest, I can't remember anymore.
There was a lot.
Yeah.
My, uh, my mother's cousin came, uh, one day when I, while I was in Canada, and his wife is Thai.
OK, and she also, he cooked a big pile of food for us, that was great, but I will tell you about that.
Next time.
Yeah, I'm getting a bit busy here.
I better get going.
OK? All right.
Thanks a lot.
See you later.
Bye bye.
Bye.
Good morning, how are you doing? I Great.
What about you? Can't complain.
It's, uh, the typhoon's coming, I don't know, it's, it's.
Unknown rain, wind, and sun, but I'm good.
I'm good, I'm good.
How was uh how was your trip to Canada? It was adventurous, it was hard, and it was really good.
Adventurous, hard and really good.
Yeah.
Let's, let's let's start with the adventurous part.
Did you go climbing? I went climbing for 3 days.
Uh, in the Rocky Mountains.
In the Rocky Mountains, we went up high.
Yeah.
Yeah.
How, how high? Is high.
Oh, probably about 4 or 500 m high.
All right.
Yeah, like you, you climbed, you climbed up 400 or 500.
That's right.
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, it's great.
And then Not hiking, this is rock climbing.
Rock climbing, if you fall without the rope, you're in trouble.
Wow.
We had ropes to hold it.
Yeah, yeah, and you were there with your kids.
My two boys were with me.
It was, it was my big uh show my boys, my former life.
You're forming life as a as a daredevil rock climber.
As a, as a Canadian, when I lived in Canada, this is what I did.
As a, as a Canadian, so that's Daredevil rock climber is synonymous with Canadian.
For me it is.
All right.
All right.
And, and they enjoyed it.
Well, my younger son got scared, but he also looked at it as a personal challenge.
He said, I'm not gonna back down, and he overcame it.
So it was a growing point for him, and he's decided he doesn't want to go rock climbing again, but he's really glad that he did it.
Yeah, yeah, understood, understood.
And how is everything else? You, you visit family at uh Canadian food, whatever that is in your definition, which I'm sure is different than mine.
Our Canadian food was pretty varied.
We were eating, I was being treated to dinners at different uh family houses, and it was all quite different and all very Canadian, really scrumptious.
Scrumptious being um um a prairie boy that you are, my image of prairie food is just beef.
So I, I imagine all you ate was beef every day.
Well, tell me, tell me I'm wrong.
I, I, I'd love to say you're wrong, but no, you aren't.
We had, we didn't have beef every day, but there was a lot of meat on the menu.
Yeah.
And my boys, uh, my biological father had a, a big, um, what do you call it? Barbecue for us.
And he had the biggest steaks that I've ever eaten.
And my boys were eating the steaks too, and they were surprised at how enormous they were.
Did you guys each get your own steak? That's right, we each got this enormous steak.
it's not.
We're we're not talking Japanese style where you're sharing a plate of slices of steak or or a barbecue steak, and we're not talking like getting a little piece of steak.
You each got a full steak steak.
Yeah, on the bone.
And you had.
On the bone, T-bone, T-bone.
Wow, and you had no problem eating the whole thing.
I, all of us, we finished it off, we polished it off.
And what did you have with your steak, or was it just steak and nothing else? No, no, no, no, there was, uh, we had appetizers, um, his, his wife is from Indonesia, so we had kind of harumaki.
Uh, in, oh yeah, spring rolls, spring rolls, yeah, and then beef roll.
What? Beef spring rolls.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Something else, I don't know, I didn't probably shrimp.
Yeah.
And then there was uh corn, and there was, honest, I can't remember anymore.
There was a lot.
Yeah.
My, uh, my mother's cousin came, uh, one day when I, while I was in Canada, and his wife is Thai.
OK, and she also, he cooked a big pile of food for us, that was great, but I will tell you about that.
Next time.
Yeah, I'm getting a bit busy here.
I better get going.
OK? All right.
Thanks a lot.
See you later.
Bye bye.
Bye.