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winter arrives in orillia 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A peaceful morning moment in Orillia, Ontario. One thing I love about this town: how the streets turn into an old-fashioned tableaux as soon as the first snow arrives. Read more:winter
we’re doomed 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Like a bunch of bullies, the current Canadian power mongers government in power has decided not to invite anyone out of the in-club to the upcoming major important meeting on climate change in Bali, Indonesia.
The reason? The last time they invited opposition MPs to an international environmental conference, they were ... Read more:doomed
midweek weather massacre 0000-00-00 00:00:00 These days, there isn't much to love around here. Think sky like dirty laundry and earth muddy with non-stop rain. Those autumn leaves are still lying around, but they're losing their colour as quickly as weather
ed copper.
Maybe with the arrival of the beast pictured above (currently assaulting Des Moines, ... Read more:massacre
travelling and tragedy 0000-00-00 00:00:00 For a few days before the cyclone hit the shoreline of Bangladesh, the local weather folks were talking about it. Their normally Toronto-centric radar images had suddenly swung into the far east, pointers rising as they told us how the full brunt of the wind would hit the Ganges delta ...
here come the holidays… 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Imagine this: you're standing in a train station, minding your own business, reading a magazine or staring at your fingernails, when all of a sudden the whole place begins to rumble with the arrival of a locomotive. A whistle blows. Steam billows into the air. Everyone watches as the behemoth ... Read more:hellip
an end to easy-going eating 0000-00-00 00:00:00 (Eaten while in Ecuador: Pan-fried Maggots on a Bed of Wild Onions, Served on Banana Leaf. Come to think of it, this was likely gluten-free...)
In my early days of travelling, eating
was one of my favourite things. In Italy, a budget breakfast called for fresh olives from the ...
riverside sunset 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Yesterday J. and I went over to Collingwood for the day. On the way home, we stopped at the Edenvale Conservation Area and watched as the setting sun turned the Nottawasaga River into a lovely portrait of the identical world.
reasons to wander 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Lately I'm in love with a couple of brazen kids from Portland, Oregon.
One year ago this past Tuesday, Amy and Sloan packed up a bright yellow 1977 VW camper van and took off across America for the first stage of a year of traveling throughout India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Cambodia, ...
grey day getaways 0000-00-00 00:00:00 In my part of the world, it isn't April that's the cruelest month. It's November: grey, damp, dark at 5:00 and shadowed by the anticipation of the long winter tunnel that awaits. Yesterday morning, weather predictions called for 15 to 20 centimetres of snow (that's about 5 to 8 inches, ...
Outbound 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last July, Jason and I spent some time hiking in hundred degree heat in southern Utah.
It wasn't just to get away. Nor was it an exercise in self-flagellation. Like Gary Ferguson, the writer of Outbound, a poignant and lovely essay I recently discovered in the Summer issue of Camas, the ...
the city of molotov cocktails 0000-00-00 00:00:00 These days, the city of lights is once again the city of street fires.
And as the rioting continues in Paris, I listen to a politician from the right-wing French National Assembly saying things like "tribalism" and "racism against French culture" and "it's easier to make a living through drugs" ... Read more:cocktails
memories of a jungle jaunt 0000-00-00 00:00:00 I've been going through my pictures recently - you know, that ubiquitous crate full of matte paper snaps left over from pretty much every moment before digital cameras came of age - and found a bunch from my trip to Ecuador in 2000.
A remedy for a broken heart (I left ... Read more:memories
sunbathing and sea burial in miami 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A couple of odd bits of news from Miami, Florida popped into my in-box today, sent by TravelMole. Together, they summoned an image of that strange ocean-side world, so different from the wintry view out my window. How fun!
The first is a newly offered guarantee from Catalina Hotel & Beach ... Read more:sunbathing
going green with a real tree 0000-00-00 00:00:00 When I was a kid growing up in Northern Ontario, getting a Christmas tree often involved bumping down some icy back road, breaking trail into the forest and cutting one down. That might make some environmentalists cringe, but not as much as plastic. The verdict has long been out and ...
fire and ice 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last year, my family went for a walk on Christmas Day. The grass was green. The sky was blue. Halfway down the road to the park, I took off my jacket. With predictions for the coldest winter in fifteen years, it's pretty clear we won't be doing that this ...
the fiction of place 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Lately, I've been settling into another kind of place: made-up landscapes pieced together in my head and put on the page. I just finished a short story that unravels around and in an abandoned house perched beside a big lake. I grew up on the north shore of Lake Huron, ...
Niagara Falls New and Old 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The Festival of Lights is on right now in NiagaraFalls
and that's where J. and I spent the weekend. The town sure has changed since we were kids. Back then, the two grand waterfalls and the amusement park atmosphere of Clifton Hill were the main draws. These days, the ... Read more:Niagara Falls
guide to your christmas rain-glow 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Yesterday, we had six foot snowbanks. Today, it's pouring rain. On my first weekend of the two-week Christmas break I'm watching those grand piles of white stuff dwindle down to nothing while baking gluten-free shortbread and listening to Nat King Cole sing seasonal classics.
This weather is supposed to ...
gifts for travellers 0000-00-00 00:00:00 What to get for the nomad who has nothing? Here are a few items that he or she can easily slip in their backpack for a better life on the road.
Klean Kanteen: Hearing all the bad news about plastics lately? These stainless steel water bottles should be on everybody's wish ...
guide book glitches 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Travelling on my own in Argentina a few years back, I read about the ruins of San Jose de Lules, a Jesuit mission outside of the small city of Tucuman. There wasn't much to do in Tucuman. I barely spoke Spanish and I'd already seen the sights of the town, ...
mental meanderings in march 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Thanks to T.S Eliot, everyone calls April the cruelest month... Well, maybe in England.
Maybe in England April is all about soggy skies and flaccid flowers but here, in Central Ontario, April is more about, um, Hope, Sun, and, ultimately, The Big Melt.
In fact, I can't wait for April.
In this ... Read more:mental
on stands now… 0000-00-00 00:00:00 When I was a kid, I wanted to be a photojournalist for National Geographic. Last year I managed to somewhat fulfill this life-long ambition, when a story I pitched to their travel mag, National Geographic Traveler, was accepted.
In August, J. and I jumped in the car and headed back to ... Read more:stands
the dog days of winter 0000-00-00 00:00:00 A hint of spring arrived this Sunday. The sky was blue and the bright sun ate away at our - no exaggeration - six-foot snowbanks. We decided to take advantage of the weather by heading out into one of our local public forests, for a turn around a ski-trail. This ... Read more:winter
total eclipse of the moon 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last night, J. and I bundled up and spent a good hour, on and off, standing in our driveway. We leaned against our car and watched the sky. The solar eclipse
started with a small bite out of the side and gradually, ever so slowly, the moon disappeared.
As it sank ...
back on track 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Okay, Okay. I know. I know!
I have fallen prey to the blogger's disease, procrastination, abandonment, evident in the long delay between posts, that vacuous sense of time that must greet any of my regular readers as they wander over to my site only to see that, no, I've yet to ...
“This is Canada. We have winter.” 0000-00-00 00:00:00 The snow keeps coming - a further ten to 20 centimeters expected today, on top of the 40 we've received since Saturday - and here's what that looks like right now through my office window.
On the weekend, J. and I valiantly embraced the winter
y-ness of it all by walking to ... Read more:Canada
lost in translation 0000-00-00 00:00:00 Last May, in downtown Santiago de Chile, I found myself laughing my head off in a brightly-lit diner. It was around midnight and a few of us, gripped by hunger, had sauntered up the street from our hostel to find something to eat. Little did we know the menu would ...
about writing and travel… 0000-00-00 00:00:00 My interview with TravelBlogs.com is up today. Read my responses to questions about the relationship between travel and writing
, when I first found my wanderlust and, of course, what advice I'd give to newbies. Then come back and tell me what you think. Does travel feed your creativity? What ...
daydreams and a great deal 0000-00-00 00:00:00 This morning, before the sun came up, I took our dog for a walk. The sky was that pearly blue that deepens into an impossible, nearly neon shade before the sun emerges over the horizon and washes it out. It was beautiful - fat snowflakes drifted to the ground, settling ...
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