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Started 2025 with a trip to Las Vegas

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It’s now December 31, 2025 Im drinking tea in an ice cream shop in Ottawa realizing I never finished this post. I drafted this post earlier in the year but it’s all still relevant.  The  way the world has changed in the last few months I feel like I need to explain that I went to Las Vegas in early 2025 because I knew things were going to change after January 20. I didn’t know how. I was expecting more violence and less direct flights. I never expected that things would change so quickly in a few months. It is now the beginning of March and it’s hard to keep up. Anyways flights and tourism to US destinations are already significantly reduced from Canada. I finished this trip knowing it would be awhile before I visited the US again and it was a pretty perfect trip for my memories and I am glad I took it.  I have been to Las Vegas many times you can read about some of my previous trips on this blog. I don’t think I have ever been in January. This time I was supposed to go w...
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A vendor gave me the wrong item and I accidentally tasted beef after over thirty years

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A vendor I know at the market gave me a beef item instead of vegan one and I took a bite before I realized. This was the first time I have had beef in over thirty years. I do try and support non vegan businesses that have vegan products because it helps more people access vegan items. Unfortunately there is always a risk of getting something that isn’t vegan by accident; although, I have never had this happen at a market before. Vegan food is popular in Ottawa some businesses have really shown an interest changing their menu after I have spoken with them just so that they can be more inclusive. These businesses may not be ready to go fully vegan but they take a lot of care to curate the vegan menus.  Other businesses come to vegan events and don’t really offer much vegan outside of the events. I asked a vendor at Vegans who snack if they offer any vegan items on their regular menu and they looked at me like I was crazy for asking such a question. This particular business is in the ...
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