On our second day of riding, while huffing and puffing up an absurdly steep Croatian road, I said to my wife Florence, ‘Perhaps it would be wise...
When I first spied Bob he was hunched over a computer in the dark outside a bathhouse on the Rio Grande River. We were camped in Big...
Dubrovnik City wall Room 703, Valamar Hotel, Dubrovnik, Croatia. I had a strange dream last night. Well past midnight there came a quiet rap on the...
A glorious afternoon among the vineyards One of the keys to enjoyable travel — and recovery from a seven-hour jet-lag hangover — is to give oneself time...
Standing on an active lava flow is ill-advised. But our guide Steve demonstrated the art carefully, with a brief clamber onto the quickly cooling pahoehoe. We were...
Let’s face it. April in Alberta sucks. Beneath the snowy mantle cold and clean… lies a bunch of dead brown grass. Meanwhile on Vancouver Island, spring is...
In Norse mythology, Valhalla is the place where slain warriors dwell under the leadership of god Odin. The einherjar blissfully hang out in the netherworld, patiently awaiting...
