One Giant Step

Cresting Dead Womans Pass on the five day Inca Trail Trek in Peru is definitely one of the highlights of our RTW trip. We had planned our entire itinerary around being in Peru in the right season and had booked the trek months in advance to secure a spot on the very popular trail. Being [...]

  This is where I live now. Where the mountains meet the sky and then drop to the most velvety landscape I have ever seen. Where what looks flat is actually filled with coulees, and river valleys; rolling hills and fields as far as you can see. Where I can watch the weather from miles away [...]

Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl With yellow feathers in her hair and a dress cut down to there She would merengue and do the cha-cha And while she tried to be a star, Tony always tended bar… I know…right? If you remember Barry Manilow at all from being a child of the [...]

The interesting stuff that wiled away my time this week. Don’t blame me for your procrastination – I have enough trouble of my own!! Sherry and Michaela kicked off the second annual MeetPlanGo event this week and by all accounts this year was even better than last year! With several friends taking part, hosting and [...]

There are two great lessons that I learned while traveling around the world: Never piss off the one person in the whole world who can get you back home. Slow travel is better. The first lesson I learned early on in our travels and heeded closely our whole time away. The second took some time [...]

I felt most ‘out there’ while in Laos. While it wasn’t difficult to get around, find a place to stay or a meal, it was definitely one of the more rustic places that we visited. There were several bridges like this in Vang Vieng; not only used by pedestrians and bicycles but also by motorbikes! We [...]

It’s Thanksgiving today in Canada so I thought I would share a picture of where we were on Thanksgiving during our RTW trip. Traveling around  in Cappadocia Turkey is like traveling in a different world. The ‘fairy chimney’ geology creates a surreal scenery that is unlike any I have seen before. The underground cities and [...]

I have always admired passion in a person. The unwavering ability to believe in something and to feel so strongly about it that nothing else matters. Soap-box preaching crazy heads in the town square? Passion. Conspiracy theory touting evangelists? Passion. Belting out a song about the ‘Mighty Fraser River’ to a small crowd in an [...]

Wander into the bohemian neighborhood of San Telmo in Buenos Aires on a Sunday and find their market in full swing. It’s a quirky, fun market filled with knick-knacks and paddywhacks, foodstalls and winebars, antiques and entertainment. A must see if you’re heading that way.

I don’t know why but I have a thing for deserts. I like being able to see forever and wonder about the variety of life that manages to survive in such a seemingly inhospitable environment. A little while ago I boldly proclaimed that I would like to visit all the deserts in the world…maybe this [...]

We’ve been here in Calgary for five months now (already!). We have been extremely busy this summer exploring our new home and getting settled into new jobs. It’s been a great summer but I can start to feel the chill in the air as fall slowly creeps in. Before too long the dark hours will [...]