Category: Activities

  • Grilled Cheese, Mill Street Beer, A Museum of Shoes, & a Heckuva Time

    Grilled Cheese, Mill Street Beer, A Museum of Shoes, & a Heckuva Time

    Toronto! I somehow end up in this magnificent city at least a few times a year. Despite meandering through it occasionally, I’ve never been back and not found something unique and new to see, do, or try. The Cross-Canada Travel Blogger Tour, put on by the Canadian Tourism Commission, not only gave me the opportunity…

  • Toronto Loves Honeybees!

    Toronto Loves Honeybees!

    The shoo-ing of bees is a rather normal thing for most. Who wants to be stung by some little pest? I too am guilty of cursing at those little, fuzzy, yellow & black bugs. While my ignorant hand is swatting the air aimlessly like a fool, there is a pro bee movement that is bringing…

  • 13 Reasons to Ditch Airlines for VIA Rail

    13 Reasons to Ditch Airlines for VIA Rail

    Henry Miller, the famous writer & painter once wrote – “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” In the last 60 years, travel has evolved for the impatient. We board a plane, melt into our in-flight entertainment consoles, look out the window a couple of times, and arrive at…

  • A Local Quebecois Experience at Le Massif’s Hôtel La Ferme

    A Local Quebecois Experience at Le Massif’s Hôtel La Ferme

    Travel has been evolving for generations, but one of the most profound changes in recent years within this massive industry is peoples desire to do no harm, to see the world in the most ecologically friendly way possible without sacrificing comfort and style. While companies strive to make less of an impact by decreasing their…

  • The White Pass & Yukon Route – Gateway to the North

    The White Pass & Yukon Route – Gateway to the North

    Driving from Whitehorse in the Yukon to Fraser, B.C to climb aboard the White Pass & Yukon Route is an experience unto itself. The scenery in this region can hardly be described. Hues of blue & green with sharp contrasts of icy white and dark charcoals and black cover the rocky mountainous terrain. It’s as…

  • Why I Love Quebec & You Should Too!

    Why I Love Quebec & You Should Too!

    Located throughout this french Canadian region are a thriving people that have fought for their culture. The french Canadians are truly one of Canada’s brighter shades of colours, with decadent food, a thriving arts scene, a passion for history, and all things fun. While tensions between the french and the english have seen waves in…

  • The Giant Flowerpots at Hopewell Rocks

    The Giant Flowerpots at Hopewell Rocks

    Straining your neck upwards it’s hard to grasp the immensity of these massive boulders. Carved out of the landscape by thousands of years of erosion from the largest tides in the world, with the assistance of the hot heat of summer in New Brunswick and its frigid temperatures in the winter (known formally as “Freeze…

  • The Haunted Jail Hostel of Ottawa

    The Haunted Jail Hostel of Ottawa

    I walk gently down the creaking skinny corridors, grazing the smooth black iron bars of the jail cells that once housed the guilty, the innocent, the crazy, the murderous, and the drunk. Some of these cellars would have been the final form of accommodations as several of the detainees in these cells were put to their…

  • Camping on a Cliff at Hole in the Wall Campgrounds – A New Brunswick Experience

    Camping on a Cliff at Hole in the Wall Campgrounds – A New Brunswick Experience

    Looking out from the edge of a cliff, I watched as the Grand Manan ferry sails over the horizon, off in the distance to my right is the Swallowtail Lightstation, shining light on it’s tiny corner of the Bay of Fundy. My eyes wander down from the horizon to my footing. A jagged 15 meter…