Frank Lake, home to some of Southern Alberta’s best birding
If you’ve ever had opportunity to fly through a major international airport hub, like Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson, Beijing Capital, Dubai, Los Angeles or London’s Heathrow, you’d have an understanding of the potential mayhem that exists in the skies above those cities. Air Traffic Controllers must have wits about them that few humans could muster up in
Make Room for the Broom
North Woven Broom Company, Crawford Bay, BC As a male my tendency would be to see a broom as purely functional. A handle. Bristles. Get the job done. The thing with visiting an Artisan’s workspace and seeing them engaged in their craft is that the observer forms a strange and unintentional bond with the Artisan’s unique
A Magical Hideaway in the BC Woods at Owl Ridge
Spontaneous Spring 2019 Road Trip The cabin at Owl Ridge near Riondel, BC is not just any cabin. For readers to understand what significance this log cabin situated in the woods above Kootenay Lake’s east shore has to Christa and I, you would need to have a little more insight into our love story. A little
Derek’s Road Trip Essentials Checklist
We sure do love a good road trip. Check out our most recent road trip stories here. We also love leaving some space for spontaneity during our journey, sometimes not even booking accommodation ahead of time and trying to figure it out when we get there. None the less, there are always a few key
Hot springs, bird watching and the Nordic god of snow
Spontaneous Spring 2019 Road Trip Day #2 Following our annual indulgent spa pamper in Canmore the previous day, we settled in and enjoyed a comfortable enough sleep in our cozy and somewhat smaller-than-usual bed in our penthouse perch at Radium Chalet. Read about our Day #1 experience here. We managed to mobilize ourselves in time to
Midday massage, classic Canmore and Radium’s best room-with-a-view
Spontaneous Spring 2019 Road Trip Day #1 We do love a good road trip. It’s synonymous with who we are as a couple. We got engaged during our first road trip from Calgary to Vancouver in 2011. Thankfully, Christa said, “yes”. Otherwise the 13-hour trip back to Calgary would have been interminable! Ever since, we’ve made a point of road tripping
Derek’s Day Hike Equipment Checklist
As a novice day hiker, I do tend to want to delay departure from home until I have checked everything off my list … and then some. But “what defines a novice day hiker?”, you might ask. That’s a great question, since it does mean different things to different people who have differing degrees of capability. According to I
A Jam-Packed Public Market
A public market. An active learning park. A petting zoo. A working farm. A top-notch restaurant. An aquaponics facility. Country-side bliss. Live events. Any one of these activities would be a family-fun destination in itself. But combined in a single location? That’s awesome! That’s Granary Road! The sprawling grounds of Granary Road Public Market Located 5km off
African Adventures: Botswana Cycle Safari with our Besties (Part 2)
If you fall off a bicycle … They say that if you fall off a bicycle the best thing you can do is face your fears, re-mount that beast and ride it hard again. I don’t know who “they” is, but that’s the same as what we had to do on Day 2 of our Botswana
African Adventures: Botswana Cycle Safari with our Besties (Part 1)
The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. John Howard, US cyclist There are certain routine activities that we engage in that we compare to learning to ride a bicycle. Why is that? It’s as if riding a two-wheeled, self-propelled, chain-driven structure in a forward direction – and hopefully in a