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Day One - Morning: Stanley Park Stanley park is the largest urban park in North America, larger than New York's Central Park. Of course, you can't cover 1000+ Acres in a day so focus on the highlights, which a route called the SeaWall - a trail on the edge of the Park and the ocean.  We started from our hotel at around 10:45 AM - walked ~25m and then rented a bike from Spokes, which is at the entrance of Stanley park. I highly recommend renting a bike - it's fun, healthy and you are riding with a lot of locals along the trail. You do have the option of local loop bus that has a pickup and drop-off service at different spots along the route. Here are some details that will be helpful if you decide to rent a bike This is specific to Spokes since that's where we rented from, but I did notice there were many bike rental places around the park. $7.52 / Hour for my bike (this was the cheapest option). $9.50 / Hour for my wife's mountain bike. We needed to ren...

In this Six part series - I'll outline specific itinerary  details of our trip to Vancouver in two days. The goal is to cover the highlights of this beautiful city if you have only two days to visit it. Without further ado, let's begin ... Arrive in Vancouver Vancouver is confident, beautiful and distinctive. It has a fresh, clean, skyscraper studded city look with a scenic, natural backdrop. It is chareteristically unique and well worth a visit. One of the most striking thing about Vancouver is it's sprarky newness which stands out against the wild western frontier. I was intially planning on skipping Vancouver and instead visiting Whistler but I am glad I did not. You'll be glad to, to have visited this amazing city. Pre-Work Book your accommodations (I recommend central Downtown). Plan your trip details from the Airport to your Accommodations. If arriving late, also have plans ready for next day. I booked my hotel through Priceline (details here) f...

Kindle readers (the monochrome, e-ink variety) are very popular for reading books for various reasons but did you know you can also read web-articles and PDF files on your Kindle. There is a  'Send to Kindle' Chrome extension  by Amazon which allows you to very easily send readable web-pages to your Kindle. This reduces the stress that a monitor can cause and allows you to read in a form-factor focused on reading. Further - you are able to send PDF annual reports to your Kindle. To do that: Use a registered email address to send to your Kindle Email address (you can find it in your Kindle settings).  Send and Add 'Convert' to the Subject line. Attach your PDF to the email. This does tend to not convert tables very well so keep that in mind. Hope that helps and Happy Holidays!