Coming from landlocked Alberta, the maritime culture is something that we have never quite understood. After several weeks in Atlantic Canada we saw lobster traps pulled and even dug for…
We’ve been to many restaurants over the years that claim “farm-to-table” menus, and they all do provide that, to some extent. Before dining at Maison de Soma, however, we had…
If we were looking for chaos, we found it at the Nighttime Marrakech Market in Morocco. In fact, we found it within only a few minutes walking from our riad….
I am finally writing this as snow flies outside for the first time since early spring of this year. As soon as I woke I opened the front door a…
As a child, Pete camped in Prince Albert National Park with his family a couple of times. Too young to remember many details, he said the strongest memory he has…
Everyone thinks they want to go somewhere “no one’s been.” That’s not actually the goal. What people want is to arrive before the place gets ruined — and that’s a…
Your Rome connection just cancelled. You’re stranded in Frankfurt, holding a useless boarding pass, and the gate agent is handing out €8 food vouchers like that’s supposed to cover four…
Let’s be direct: most people approach mountain treks all wrong. They show up unprepared, with the wrong gear, and a dangerous ‘wing it’ attitude. This isn’t a walk in the…
We had been there so many times before. It was our big transit point – we knew the airport well and had visited many platforms at the central bus station…
C’mon world. You don’t make it easy on full-time wanderers who are eager to taste your wares yet simultaneously trying to control their waistlines. You smothered us with pasta in…