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California Dreamin’
We departed Fossil Falls as the morning’s first light was breaking over the eastern mountains. We had a long day ahead of us as we decided to squeeze in a visit to Sequoia National Park on our way to Yosemite. Both of these parks are gems in the US parks system so to skip one
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Grand Canyon
After leaving Zion we headed for Marble Canyon to spend a night before the Grand Canyon’s north rim opened for the season the following day. We treated ourselves to a motel stay at the Marble Canyon Lodge adjacent to the historic Navajo Bridge that connects Arizona’s isolated north strip to the rest of the state.
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Chasin’ down a hoodoo there
We left Moab in eastern Utah and headed southwest toward Bryce. The route there took us back to yet another mesmerizing view on I-70 called San Rafael Swell. The land formation was caused by a section of the earth’s crust that was heaved up to create an angular reef of rock. The engineers who constructed
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The Arches of Utah
Utah is a desert state and so we expected its landscape to look different than what we’re used to. But I don’t think we were prepared for how different. This entire area is the artwork of the forces of millions of years of erosion through the sandstone of an ancient seabed. Everywhere you go are
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THE Big Road Trip
In December my partner and I started to plan a trip to Vancouver Island to visit his mom’s sisters. His mom passed away last year and covid meant that the usual family gatherings, particularly for the older folks, were not possible. We originally planned to fly out for a couple of weeks to see family
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Return to Cape Breton
After packing up from the Markland and leaving Dingwall we made our way to Ingonish to hike the Franey Trail. No visit to CB is complete without a pilgrimage to see the house my grandfather built in Dominion in the early 1930s. The house hasn’t been in the family since 1944, but we still like
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Road trip to the briny coast
It had almost been 2 years to the day since the last time I had been east. The pandemic made it nearly impossible to visit Nova Scotia and there was no way I wanted visit the old folks and possibly bringing a contagion to their homes. With everyone vaccinated and the virus in retreat (at
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Pukaskwa National Park
Another covid summer but why not make the most of it in one’s own backyard? For the second summer in a row we ventured to northern Ontario, this time to do some back country camping in one of the province’s most beautiful but least known parks. We spent the first night in the small car
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Escape from pandemia
Months back, before the annus horribilus 2020 had made humanity a punchline, my partner and I contemplated our summer vacation plans without a care in the world for what was to come. Italy…Canary Islands…ooh, ooh, Scotland…so many possibilities. Then the pandemic rolled around and it looked like we would be setting our horizons so much
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Some Paraguay facts and an Iguazu extravaganza
February 21 With the build over, the team piled into a van and headed across Paraguay to see an incredible natural wonder, Iguazu Falls. But before getting into that, here are a few of my layperson’s reflections about Paraguay. Paraguay is generally not on many tourists’ itineraries. Landlocked in central South America, it lacks the
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