Our friendly world travelers at the Oregon State Capitol Dad and I are just on our Air Canada flight home from Portland. What a fun week we just had! The…

San Francisco to Vancouver. Saying goodbye at Granville Market Big Trees! This is one of the most beautiful and seismically active trips in North America. Indeed while driving north we were…

Beautiful Mount Hood, Oregon. Also rumbling away. 36 years ago today (May 18, 2016), Mount Saint Helens in beautiful Washington State quite literally blew its top off. Just recently there…

A sugar maple erupting in fall red! I have just returned from a month of colours in central Canada and the Eastern USA. I maintained my internal enthusiasm for woodland florescence…

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…

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,…

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…