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The rain is pounding down so hard all around us that what normally looks like staccato lines, instead appears like a curtain of long, silver streaks. I hadn’t realized before coming to Panama in November that I would be in the country at the height of their eight-month rainy season. Fortunately, sun glimmers through the Continue Reading
Top destinations in Canada for a wintery wilderness workout
I am with my family on a road trip that begins and ends in the vibrant, chaotic fluorescent-lit Las Vegas. It’s a city of acting out, of outrageousness, bright lights and big shows. No subtlety here.
Although I grew up in Montreal, I was never introduced as a child to Quebec’s rich geography, history and beauty that spreads itself like a rich tapestry across the rest of the province.
Cycling the Loire Valley is like entering into a kaleidoscope of colour. You pass shivering fields of orange poppies, sail along paths hugging the deep blue Loire River, and past the pale warm yellow of limestone buildings.
The Trapp Family Lodge began welcoming guests to what was originally a 27-room family home in 1950. Later the lodge expanded, establishing itself as one of the oldest Nordic centres in the United States and the largest in Stowe.
Think of Tucson as a basin with steep edges. An urban desert, defined less by its architecture than by its natural beauty, benign climate, blue skies and the dazzling interplay of light and shadow.
Featured in Travel Society Magazine, Winter 2014. The U.S. border is often an intimidating barrier for Canadians looking for a quick weekend getaway. But it shouldn’t be. In just over three hours, Torontonians can be driving along winding country roads overlooking long slender lakes, with wineries, microbreweries and quaint inns at their fingertips. On a Continue Reading