Very often memories are related to our parents and our childhood days. These memories become a part of who we are and what we choose to experience in our lives. Our dear Mom, Gesina lived to be 97 years old, sadly we lost our Dad, Harold shortly after his 81st birthday. Both of them were […]
Regardless of where you are from or where in Australia you intend to visit, the opportunity to meet some native Australian animals is always a popular bucket list item. My hometown of Brisbane provides plenty of opportunities to see native Australian animals either in a wildlife sanctuary or out and about in the wild. Read […]
Batting my 17 year old love-struck eyes at the big city boy standing before me I sputter, “Have you seen the Saskatoon castle?” Gazing at his perfect white tooth smile I think my heart may actually leap from my chest. Hopefully not flopping on the floor at his feet. Politely and with blue eyes twinkling […]
Boy do I feel old. Wait a minute. I’m young compared to the discovery of the Burgess Shale fossil beds in 1909. To the end of the last ice age 11,000 years ago. To the beginning of the ice age 110,000 years ago. To the end of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. To the […]
I put my shoes on but they were tight, too tight I thought. It took me a moment to realize that my feet were actually swollen. As many travel stories go a series of events led to a journey of more than forty-eight hours without sleeping in a bed. Our economy tickets on the ferry […]
In planning a trip to Alaska, visions of untamed wilderness twinkling under sunny skies fills my imagination. Arriving to visit Juneau, Alaska’s capital city, from the peacefulness of Glacier Bay, I begin to think the plane has taken a very wrong turn. The city of just over 30,000 is swarming as if we are standing […]