Victoria’s Beautiful Architecture We have just returned from our annual family trip to Vancouver Island. I love Vancouver Island. Although I travel often to beautiful Victoria, every summer we join…

We rode first class on the Alaska Rail Early in July I had my first full tour experience – and with my dad :).  Even better, it was in Alaska! We…

This trip was not the typical cruise adventure, rather they wanted to go inland and frankly so did I. Everyday was an event and I remember why I love the…

Finn’s handstand on Prince William Sound 🙂 Alaska is big. It is really, really big. When put inside the lower 48 states of the USA, Alaska stretches from coast to…

Finn saying goodbye to Windells I have just finished a great 10 days in Oregon. We drove all the way down from our mountain town of Canmore, via BC, Idaho,…

*This article was written in 2015, before Donald Trump was elected president. The recent attempt to overthrow the US government simply seems the inevitable culmination of years of hate-mongering, lies…

Skidmore Market, Portland Wandering through Portland, Oregon’s Skidmore Market on a Sunday I saw a fun and self-deprecating shirt announcing; “Paris was too expensive, so I’m in Portland.” Honest, perhaps,…

Just the other day, my uncle Graham and I went looking for salamanders. We caught two little salamander nymphs in a tiny pond, near Canmore. I will take care of…

The so-called Lost City of the Inca’s, Machu Picchu (MP) is so indisputably Peru’s most iconic attraction that suggesting anything to the contrary is simply argumentative. I have actually sat…

Boycott Saudi Arabia Support human rights and end the arms trade with religious fascists. Raif Badawi Deserves to Live The backward and abusive Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is again making…