Canada’s Oldest ‘Hair Stylist & Blogger’ Team

May 25 2015

Brennen Demelo and I are.

Back in the beginning of blogging – 2008-ish – the first partnership any blog girl worth her salt landed was a hair stylist. When Brennen and I shook hands, I’d just moved to Toronto and was producing ‘The Canadian Explorer’ and he had one sink in the back of someone else’s business.

We’re now in our 7th year, and are
the only partnership still intact.

Above is us through the years.

Below is us in 2008.

Today, he’s a leading salon in Toronto and Canada, opened a second location in Barrie, for years has been the top L’Oreal Canada representative, styles many of the magazines covers you see, and I’ve become one of the country’s top auto journalists.

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The 2015 Ford Expedition fits in Everywhere

May 21 2015

It does – took it on some country dirt roads, then above is when I valeted it at the Hazelton Hotel HAHA

(non-Toronto residents: that’s one of the city’s fanciest hotels.)

2015 Ford Expedition – Platinum Trim

3.5 L V6 engine
6-speed automatic transmission
365 hp
420 lb.ft

Starting at $49,999
This one $70,949

Everything in this centre console can be operated while wearing work gloves.

Had to go downtown twice that week, and once during Friday afternoon rush hour traffic at that.

I thought it’d be cumbersome to be in a 20″-wheeled mega machine, but it proved opposite and I had that thing flying around. Handling was direct, then add in all the torque, so when a fast move is needed, it can do it.

Finding parking wasn’t as tough as I thought it’d be either. Above is a tiny downtown side street.

Features include: plenty of USB ports, rear seats are heated and enjoy dedicated climate controls, wood trim and perforated front seats that can both cool and heat, and rain-sensing wipers.

This Platinum trim is equipped with both a rear-view camera and a reversense sensing system, but I barely used either, the sight lines were clear.

Ford does utilitarian really well. And because I’ll choose function over fashion every time, I’m into it #FunctionalLuxury

Also into power running boards.

I love being the biggest thing on the road, love the dichotomy, like how this Expedition can seat 8, and instead it was all for troll-doll-sized me.

But getting to drive something so large doesn’t happen often, so the novelty may be influencing my opinion, you should know this. That’s why auto journalists are separated into two groups – one does cars, the other specializes in giant vehicles and heavy-duty trucks.