By any measure, George Burden lives a remarkable life, experiencing the world in a way few people ever have. He’s soared through the air in a CF-18 during an aerial combat exercise and he’s marvelled at the ocean depths from a deep sea submersible. He’s swam in all of the world’s oceans including the Antarctic and the Arctic and somehow he manages to practice medicine, raise a family and write both prolifically and well. What’s his secret?
Finding Love in Canada’s North
A Montrealer falls in love with the North in the Yukon … and a Northerner in the Northwest Territories. Then, at the end of a dirt road, surrounded by bush, with no sidewalks to be seen — she finds home.
The Red Green Fan Club
If you’ve never heard of Red Green you may be missing one of the biggest laughs to come out of the wilds of Canada since…well…forever. This duct-tape packing man’s man is known for his down-to-the-dirt philosophy (“Keep your stick on the ice!”), his red and green suspenders and his ability to have grown men and women doubled over with laughter. Our writer Dan L. Hays tells about the time he joined the Red Green Fan Club and caught up with Red himself.
Girl Meets Canada: The End
Our traveler reaches the end of her amazing, quirky journey across the huge country that is Canada and looks back on what she has and hasn’t learned over the past four months. The truth is, she’s gone from West Coast to East Coast and she’s just plain run out of road. We will miss Sarah’s posts from towns we never knew the names of before, but hopefully she’ll be back with many more Sarahisms. Here’s her last post from the road.
You Aren’t Always What You Eat, Right?
An inadvertent misplacement of food turns a normally innocuous snack into a disgusting affair.
Girl Meets Canada: My St. John’s Meltdown
What do you do once you reach the final destination of your journey and realize you have no idea what to do with yourself now?
A Classical Romance
I suffer from a rather rare ailment I sometimes call the “classical bug”. This is characterized by total fascination with all things ancient, especially those concerning the ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.
Bugs are Okay By Me
When a Canadian moves to a tropical Caribbean island, she finds lots to love. And then there are the bugs. Little bugs. Big bugs. Stinging bugs. Biting bugs. For Genny Ross-Barons, it’s all just part of life in paradise.
When Strangers Aren’t So Strange
Meeting people and making new friends is part of any traveller’s journey. Sandra Phinney recently met two people in the new-to-her city of Portland who had connections to her family and province proving that it really is a small world.
Land of the Hanging Monastery: The Buddhist Treasures of China Part 3
In Part 3 of the Buddhist Treasure sof China series, Vincent Ross visits The Hanging Monastery, Yungang Caves, Wooden Pagoda and the Nine Dragon Wall. He also explores how Buddhism first came to China.
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