Hi! I’m Dave Ply, a retired software designer/developer from Portland, Oregon. Now that I’ve retired I have more time to try new things, like writing stories about some of the adventures I’ve had over the years, as well as adventures to come. In addition to the travel adventures that will likely dominate this blog, I also enjoy scuba diving and photography – both will be making appearances.
The blog itself also qualifies as a new adventure, delving into the realms of creative non-fiction. After a lifetime of more technically oriented writing, learning this style poses a new challenge. We’ll see if the stories and photos improve over time, and your opinions are welcome.
For you WordPress visitors, hearing from you gives me an excuse to check out your blogs as well, a discovery process that I suspect will lead to new worlds of entertainment, not to mention examples I can learn from. I look forward to seeing how the discovery process plays out.
Dave
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Plying Through Life 
Your blog is lovely or should I say handsome! I would love to travel and don’t so I will live vicariously through your stories.
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Thanks! Hopefully, even when I’m not travelling to far off places I’ll remember that just stepping out the front door can be a trip, and that’ll lead to stories too.
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Hi, Dave. Thanks for checking out my blog and liking. So glad it led me back here to your great looking blog. I’m envious of all your travels and looking forward to reading more!
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Hi from a relatively new blogger from Australia. Looking forward to reading about your adventures.
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Welcome, Miriam. I hope you enjoy the stories.
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Thanks Dave!
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Neat, I love the pictures:).
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I love it when I find a travel blog that is new to me, has all the ingredients that make me want to read more, with great photos too. I shall look forward to following your adventures, Dave.
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I agree. Blogs with good photography are nice. Blogs with good commentary are nice too. But blogs with both, especially when they focus on travel or adventure are the best. I will be following yours as well.
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Lovely blog Dave! You can never discover enough travel blogs – although it wreaks havoc on my travel wishlist. But until I can cross off all those Must Do countries, I will live vicariously through you! 🙂
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Thanks Diya. Sometimes I wonder what’s worse: clogging up the bucket list with more destinations, or spending all my time reading travel blogs!
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Hehe… you can never stop adding places to your bucket list I think. There are just way too many destinations out there 🙂 Now if only someone could figure out a way to buy more time 🙂
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Your photography is beautiful, Dave! I love the heron photos–some of the most interesting color patterns I’ve seen. I look forward to seeing more!
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Thanks Amy. I’m glad you’re coming along for the ride, and hope you enjoy it.
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Hi Dave. Thank you for visiting my site and for the follow. I really enjoy your writing and how you create a vivid story around your pictures. Looking forward to reading more!
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Thanks Debbie. When you said “vivid” you made my day, that’s a little reminder I give myself when trying to write a post, especially since my default mode is more “tell” than “show”. As for following your blog, that was an easy choice, western Canada has a lot to offer and you present it nicely.
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Thanks Dave ☺ I’m going to try more of those reminders when I write too.
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Hi Dave, nice to meet you! Saw your link on Almost Unsalvagable (Gabe)’s blog! Travel, photography, fun…sounds like my blog 🙂 We visit our cousins who live in Tigard and Beaverton. Portland is lovely!
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Hi Terri, nice to meet you too – welcome to the group. I’ll swing by to check your blog shortly…
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Hi Dave, just came across your blog this early morning and enjoyed its positive and open message. Nice to meet you.
Miriam
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Nice to meet you too, Miriam. I hope you’ll find future posts as agreeable.
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Hi Dave, I’m glad to have discovered your blog. It seems that our stories have some overlap. I am from northern California, retired a couple years ago, and now want to see as much of the world as I can. I too did a lot of technical writing for work, and now find creative non-fiction to be the natural go-to writing style for my own blog posts. Happy travels! Joe
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Hi Joe. Welcome to the gang. Creative non-fiction was a new challenge for me after retirement. I’m not sure it’s something that comes naturally, but I’m not sure I could even do fiction. I’ll swing by your blog and check it out shortly.
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Your blog pushes to keep seeing. Underwater as you mentioned feels uncommon and yes dangerous perhaps because of the unfamiliar. But as an imagemaker, everything invites which challenges. Lovely to have come here Dave and hoping to spend time with your work.
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Welcome.
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