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Name: Greg Age: 38Status: SingleNationality: Canadian
Politics: Laissez-faire Religion: Nephesh Email: vchameleon@gmail.com
Favorite Quote: "I don't need much of a life ... but it has to be mine."


Welcome to my website The Mirror, designed to reflect the images, experiences and ideas of my life. Any comments you may have regarding these pages -- be it of content or design -- please enter them in my guestbook. Enjoy browsing!


Explorer, Adventurer, Rationality Pioneer

Exploration and adventure are my specialties to date. Canada aside, I have traveled in thirty-six countries over a span of eighty months. Of this, eighteen months have been in China.

1970 Edmonton 1971-72 Tuktoyaktuk Inuvik 1973-74 Hay River 1975-77 Tuktoyaktuk 1978 Evansburg 1979 Calgary 1980-81 Evansburg 1982-88 Drayton Valley {1982 Los Angeles 1985 Oahu Saskatoon Winnipeg 1986 Oahu Vancouver 1987 Los Angeles 1989 Orlando} 1989-90 Edmonton Yellowknife-Fort McMurray-Vancouver-Seattle-San Francisco-Los Angeles-Las Vegas-Salt Lake City-Calgary Hay River 1991 Vancouver Edmonton 1992-93 Norman Wells Maui London Amsterdam Prague 1994 Budapest Venice Greece Turkey Syria Jordan Egypt Iran Pakistan 1995 India Nepal China 1996-98 Yellowknife 1999 China 2000 Laos Thailand Malaysia Singapore Indonesia China 2001-02 Yellowknife 2003 Mexico Belize Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua 2004 Costa Rica Panama Nicaragua Guatemala Mexico Calgary 2005 Calgary 2006 Peru Ecuador Bolivia 2007 Chile Argentina Paraguay Brazil Peru Ecuador 2008 Ecuador Colombia Northwest Territories Alberta


History & Updates of The Mirror

2009

May 18: The new website
vampiricalchameleon.com is an updated version of the old Geocities tsiktsik site but with the added bonus of no ads, unlimited bandwidth and cleaner programming.

April 26: Geocities, the company Yahoo! bought in 99 for $3 billion, is being written off as worthless. Its closing means the end of an era of free service for me (7 years). While a drawback means paying for website hosting, a long desired benefit will be I can finally integrate some 40+ Geocities accounts into one. Logging into 40+ accounts is inhibiting to website development. This change is long overdue. The new website domain is vampiricalchameleon.com

January 20: What was started in mid-December continues into 2009. Overhauling the website along four fronts: re-prioritizing items while cleaning up the programming, paragraphing and punctuation of each. Today it was the Mexico & Central America pictures page.

2008

December 31: Added 74 new pictures of Peru to the South America & Amazon Treks picture galleries.

September 22: Added my South American itinerary from Jan 1, 2006 to July 24, 2008 to the 2405 Days of Travel webpage.

September 15: Added March 2007 A Thank You Letter To K.G.E. Wade to the Letters & Poems page.

August 5: Added July 2008 Bogota, Colombia Letter to the Letters & Poems page, a summary of my activities in Paraguay, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia for the last half of 2007 and the first half of 2008.


2007

Sep 21: Added pictures to the South America Pics page, detailing my travels in the megacities of Brazil and Argentina.

June 19: Added June 2007 Buenos Aires, Argentina Letter to my Letters & Poems page, a summary of my activities in Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina for the last half of 2006 and the first half of 2007.

April 21: Added pictures to the South America Pics page, detailing my travels in Patagonia (Chile/Argentina).


2006

December 3: Added about 100 pictures to the South America Pics and Volcano Pics pages, detailing a three week jungle tour in Bolivia plus two more volcano climbs in southern Peru (El Misti, Ubinas).

September 1: Revised The Vampirical Chameleon. Originally written in July of 2003 the first section has been completely redone, with smaller editions to the second part. The third section has been left untouched.

June 18: Added June 2006 Quito, Ecuador Letter to my Letters & Poems page, a summary of my activities in Peru and Ecuador in the first half of 2006.

May 13: Added pictures of Cotopaxi, Reventador and Guagua Pichincha to my Volcanos page.

April 1: Added 8 pictures of Volcan Tungurahua to my Volcanos page.

March 9: Added Picture Gallery: South America to my website. In future months I will be uploading new pictures to this page as my travel through South America continues.

2005

December 19: Added Pictures of Mount Temple to the Scrambling Mount Indefatigable webpage.

December 16: Added Scrambling Mount Indefatigable to the Letters & Poems webpage.

September 23: Added Pop Quiz ࠬa Politics to the Letters & Poems webpage.

September 16: Added poem Harmony to the Letters & Poems webpage.

September 15: Added 15 new pictures to the Volcano Pics webpage, courtesy of Google Earth .

September 1: Redesigned the Misc Pics webpage, adding a variety of new travel pictures.

June 16: Added GJW Inc. Part Dos to the Letters & Poems webpage.

June 10: Updated the Favorites page with new movie titles & added 7 actress images.

January 31: Added Corporate Government to the Letters & Poems webpage.

January 5: Added The Epic of Tsiktsik to the Letters & Poems page.

January 1: Added 10 digital art images to the Favorites page.

2004

Dec 7: Added Let The Dice Fly ... to the Letters & Poems page.

Dec 2: Added Take Three to the September 11, 2001 Secularization webpage.

November 26: Added A Review of April 1998 to the Reconciliation webpage.

October 20: Completed text for each picture on the Volcanos page.

October 14: Completed text for each picture on the Mexico & Central America page; started text on the Volcanos html.

October 8: Finally! Added two new picture galleries titled Mexico & Central America and Volcanos. In the weeks to follow I will be adding text to each of the picture htmls, plus tweaking the selection of photos.

October 1: Added twelve new images to the Pics Of Me page.

September 11: Added 15 digital images to the Favorites page.

March 28: Added the March 2004 Letter of San Jose, Costa Rica to the Letters & Poems webpage.

2003

July 7: The Vampirical Chameleon lives again ...

May 6: Added 10 new digital images to the Favorites page.

April 11: Added poem Incendiary to the Letters & Poems webpage.

2002

December 22: Added 10 new digital images to Favorites, two new Shanghai pics (bottom), and two passport scans on 1252 days.

December 15: Added Tsiktsik's Kitchen and November 2001 Letter to my Letters & Poems webpage.

September 16: Added a new introduction to Nephesh and re-designed main page.

July 20: Added more bits & bytes to the Favorites page.

March 17: Simplified the main page of The Mirror for a faster download time.

March 15: Added four new digital images to my Favorites page as well as another four Pics Of Me. Website hits 40MB in size.

February 26: Re-designed Misc Pictures page.

February 25: Re-designed Southeast Asia pictures page.

February 24: Re-designed Shanghai Pics and Pics Of Me.

February 23: Re-designed China Pics into a more compact, intense viewing format.

February 22: Added nine new paintings/images plus five pictures to the Favorites page.

February 13: Added nineteen new paintings & images to the Favorites page.

February 5: Added thirteen pictures & additional text to the Favorites page.

January 30: Added June 1993 Freedom Through Discipline to my Letters & Poems webpage.

January 26: Added September 11, 2001 A Clash Of Civilizations to my Letters & Poems webpage.

January 20: Added six pictures to the Pics of Me page and two more paintings to the Favorites page.

January 17: Updated Pics of Me with text for each picture.

January 12: Updated Southeast Asia Pics with text for each picture.

January 4: Created a small webpage on Asian Avenue under the online name of tsiktsik.

January 1: Updated China Pics with text for each picture.

2001

December 2: Updated Shanghai Pics with text for each picture.

November 18: Re-designed webpages so now all pictures on the site open into a second viewing window. In the weeks to follow I will be adding text to each picture, providing a little history, context and/or personal travel experiences/thoughts for each photograph. To date, the only webpage I have added text to throughout is Misc Pics.

November 10: Updated Rationality by adding a second part to the webpage to provide some context for the 1994 journal entry.

November 4: Added GJW Inc. to my Letters & Poems webpage.

October 31: Updated Favorites webpage, added color scrollbars, and various other tweaks throughout the site.

August 4: Added Prometheus Unchained, a July 1998 webpage.

June 26: Added a Questions & Answers compilation simply titled -- Q&A. Also expanded my Table.html (i.e., this page) to include "My Life In Context: Stages One, Two & Three."

May 20: Posted a study I did in Chongqing called The Creators.

May 11: Added the 1998 letter Reconciliation and the 1992 poem Lady Katalin.

May 6: Added a selection of miscellaneous authors and writings to supplement the ideas contained in my Letters & Poems: Background Materials: Additional Articles & Links.

April 27: Added two pieces to the Letters & Poems page, the compilation Chronicles of the Vampirical Chameleon along with the poem Infidelity. Website hits 30MB.

April 17: With e-mail notifications, The Mirror goes 'public'.

March 17: The Mirror website is a size of 15MB.

Mar-Apr: Scanned hundreds of pictures, of which 189 are selected, cleaned up, HTML formatted and uploaded to make five picture pages: 25 of Me, 34 of Shanghai, 66 of China, 31 of Southeast Asia, and 33 Misc items (tracing back to my travels in 1994-1995).

Jan-Feb-Mar: 26 Letters & Poems are typed in, HTML formatted and uploaded.

January 19: My second website, The Mirror, goes online. This time using Yahoo's Geocities, free of charge.

1998

May to August 1998: My first website, The Mirror: Reconciliation 1998, is online. As I pay for the site to reside on a local server, it is taken down in preparation for travel.



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