December 21, 2013 in Canada, North America, Travelogue
At 5:00 p.m. it is solidly dark on Wolfe Island. At 5:00 a.m. it was also solidly dark. I was driving the long, straight stretch of highway 401, between Windsor […]
December 16, 2013 in North America, Travelogue, United States
One of the reasons we travel is to see new things. To learn. To grow. To be stretched. To stand outside everything we thought we new and realize that there […]
December 11, 2013 in North America, Travelogue, United States
This time last year we were in Borneo. Orangutans, jungle walks and old head-hunter skulls for Christmas. We rented this house on stilts in Miri, on the border with Brunei, […]
December 9, 2013 in North America, Travelogue, United States
Perhaps the hardest thing about this friends and family tour through the midwestern United States is the pace. Eighteen sets of loved ones hugged tight within the past three and […]
December 3, 2013 in North America, Travelogue, United States
I-94 around Chicago is shrouded in fog. Not the pea soup kind that makes for white knuckle driving. This is the misty, ghostly kind through which leafless black trees reach […]
November 26, 2013 in Canada, North America, Travelogue
The Canadian Rockies are spectacular. The bony plates along the spines of sleeping dragons, frozen in place under Jack Frost’s spell, curled head to tail in a pile of jagged […]
November 19, 2013 in Canada, North America
The islands off of the northeast coast of Vancouver Island are not well traveled. A double handful of people live on the little dots of land that honeycomb the inlets […]
November 15, 2013 in Canada, North America, Travelogue
Re-entry is officially kicking our butts. We’ve been on terra firma in North America for about 63 hours now, following the worst red-eye flight ever. Here is the short version: […]
November 7, 2013 in North America, United States
The USS Arizona is still weeping. Great viscous tears of pitch coloured oil, leaking from deep inside her war torn sides with agonizing reluctance. As if she still can’t quite […]
April 16, 2013 in Inspiration, Mexico, North America, Travelogue
I was thirteen the first time I set foot in Mexico City. In my memory the city smells like fresh popcorn, tastes like cotton candy and is irrevocably tied to […]
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