If you’re moving to a new country, you HAVE to expect differences. After all, the culture, laws, and social rules and customs are probably not the same as in your last home. We moved to Nova Scotia from North Carolina earlier this year, and Jackie (my American better half) correctly expected that everything would be…
Featured photo by Stephan Louis from PexelsThe Mavic drone uses your smartphone as the display on the controller. It’s one thing to learn drone flight controls and be confident in your skills; it’s quite another to be an over-confident newbie — and I was just reminded of the difference. After my dizzyingly-successful first flight, I…
“Some people just never get out and fly the dang drone. They study and study but don’t get the muscle memory down or actually apply (what they’ve studied).” Featured photo by Katie McNulty from Pexels Now that I’d completed the preparation and flight portion of the Aerial Video A to Z course with instructor Alexander…
Eight years after getting goo-goo eyed over the first drone video I ever saw, I’m finally on a mission to learn to fly and shoot video. But what took me so long? — follow along and find out. I’m learning about the mechanics, the dynamics, the cinematography (and the law!) of flying and capturing great…
My wife’s strange obsession is searching real estate listings even when we’re not looking for a home. On the odd occasion that can be a blessing — her early scouring of Nova Scotia listings on viewpoint.ca alerted us to the fact that property prices were rising everywhere — great for selling our home in North…
Finding a lighthouse in Nova Scotia should be pretty straightforward — after all, lighthouses are MADE to be seen. But for a while, the Victoria Beach lighthouse kept us in the dark. After packing to move, driving to Nova Scotia and being confined in quarantine, and getting key things set up in our new home…
It’s one thing to move to Canada. It’s quite another to set yourself up to LIVE here. Here’s a look at the must-do tasks to do when you arrive. At the border into Nova Scotia, the agents had given us strict instructions: drive from the border directly to our place of quarantine, no side trips,…
When I moved to the US from Canada 25 years ago, my employer Northern Telecom took care of all the immigration details. That made it relatively easy. This time, we were on our way to live in Nova Scotia and it was all up to us. There were a number of things we needed to…
When I first told my director at Red Hat that we were planning to move to Nova Scotia in Canada from North Carolina, her first reaction was “Dude, do you ever stay planted!!?” It was not an unreasonable question — since starting at Red Hat in 2015, she’d seen Jackie and I move four times!…
For those of you who are my age, do you ever feel that life is passing you by? I’ve felt that; life just seems to have flashed by so quickly. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I was in my 20s. The truth is I’d just forgotten many of the details of my life….