{"id":2229,"date":"2024-02-13T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/?page_id=2229"},"modified":"2025-02-25T05:10:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:10:37","slug":"adventures-in-retirement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/adventures-in-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m John Kenny. My wife, Liz Krivonosov and I have shared a love of exploration and adventure ever since we met. We&#8217;ve been from the Arctic to Antarctica and a lot of places in between. Now that we&#8217;re retired, we hope to fill in some of the blanks. We&#8217;re willing to go just about anywhere that there isn&#8217;t an active war going on.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2238\" src=\"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mile-140-3-Fishtail-rapid-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mile-140-3-Fishtail-rapid-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mile-140-3-Fishtail-rapid-1024x790.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mile-140-3-Fishtail-rapid-768x592.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mile-140-3-Fishtail-rapid-1536x1185.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mile-140-3-Fishtail-rapid-2048x1579.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Mile-140-3-Fishtail-rapid-850x656.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>So far, since retiring, we&#8217;ve been to visit the polar bears in Churchill, Manitoba; we paddled the Grand Canyon; explored family roots in Ireland; and spent 5 months exploring South America. That journey is chronicled in another section of this website. It describes how I was finally able to achieve a fifty year old dream and ride my motorcycle to Ushuaia, at the tip of Argentina, as far south as you can drive anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2237 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/535-girl-in-Bahariya-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/535-girl-in-Bahariya-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/535-girl-in-Bahariya-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/535-girl-in-Bahariya-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/535-girl-in-Bahariya-1536x1021.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/535-girl-in-Bahariya-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/535-girl-in-Bahariya-850x565.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s about more than just checking boxes on the bucket list. It&#8217;s about experiencing what makes each place unique &#8211; the art, music, food and traditions. And most of all the people &#8211; what they care about and how they see the world. It&#8217;s about getting to know this incredible planet, the wonders of nature and the human family we are all part of.<\/p>\n<p>My goal in these pages is to share these experiences with you. I can&#8217;t promise any regular schedule, but if you subscribe I&#8217;ll let you know when there are new posts to enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m John Kenny. My wife, Liz Krivonosov and I have shared a love of exploration and adventure ever since we met. We&#8217;ve been from the Arctic to Antarctica and a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1393,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-2229","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3418,"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2229\/revisions\/3418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebbsbay.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}