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 Frazer Canyon as the Sun Sets Beautiful British Columbia actually claims to be – and I quote – “The Best Place on Earth.”  It has an argument. But on…

In Toronto new always meets old! After finishing a day of work in Toronto I ran out to a barber shop for a quick trim. The barber was from Libya,…

This morning I went mountain biking along the trails at the Canmore Nordic Centre. I was surprised not to see any snow or even any skiers (aside from roller-skiers). Of…

For there are strange things done in the midnight sun, By the men who moil for gold… —Robert Service (The Bard of the Yukon) Seattle’s Space Needle Located at 319…

There was a time when airlines would offer the shortest route between two places but our voyage to Jamaica involved a 11 hour layover in Seattle! This was just long enough to go into…