Shall we talk about slavery? I honestly did not know the term Juneteenth, but over the years I have begun to understand a little about...

Welcome to the Cape I have now been coming to New England and Cape Cod on tour for four years, so just for fun I have just done a ‘Cape...

Saint Augustine I recently returned to Florida to lead another comprehensive tour of the Sunshine State. As a mountain person, flat...

This has been a mountainous summer. Two countries, three jurisdictions, but just one time zone – mountain time (my time)! The University...

Reflecting on New England As my refined smorgasbord of lobster, quaint towns, beautiful coastlines, rolling mountains and the extremely...

It had to be done! A handstand atop Cadillac Mountain 🙂 The New England Coast is beautiful. Naturally beautiful, architecturally...

Sunset from Mallory Square is one of the most famous sunsets in the world “… we’ll get there fast and then we’ll take it slow …” – The...

Overlooking the Falls on a beautiful fall day With the greatest volume of water of any waterfall on earth, Niagara’s powerful beauty is...

Give Peace a Change Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding. —Albert Einstein The world has become...

Loyalist Murals in Belfast – the art of propaganda I once listened to an Italian philosopher point out the obvious (paraphrased); “with...

Our friendly world travelers at the Oregon State Capitol Dad and I are just on our Air Canada flight home from Portland. What a fun week...

San Francisco to Vancouver. Saying goodbye at Granville Market Big Trees! This is one of the most beautiful and seismically active trips...

Beautiful Mount Hood, Oregon. Also rumbling away. 36 years ago today (May 18, 2016), Mount Saint Helens in beautiful Washington State...

A sugar maple erupting in fall red! I have just returned from a month of colours in central Canada and the Eastern USA. I maintained my...

We rode first class on the Alaska Rail Early in July I had my first full tour experience – and with my dad :).  Even better, it was in...

Finn saying goodbye to Windells I have just finished a great 10 days in Oregon. We drove all the way down from our mountain town of...

For there are strange things done in the midnight sun, By the men who moil for gold… —Robert Service (The Bard of the Yukon) Seattle’s...