Winter arrived all in one shot yesterday. A load of snow and plunging temperatures. Out come the goose-down parka and the serious winter boots — the ones that tromp through snow drifts while you laugh at fools with just ankle boots.
I am delighted.
Delighted doesn’t quite capture it.
I am gleeful. Elated. Kid-on-Christmas-morning out [...]
Categories: adventures, author's notes, these small moments
The distance between home and home is 7,300 kilometres (give or take), and miles morph into minutes en route to hours per heartbeat. Chronology blurs and winds like the road at the top of a canyon during a rainstorm. Seconds cascade in silt-saturated rivulets over sandstone outcrops. Halfway has no meaning. Our breath takes its [...]
Categories: adventures, these small moments
This is not a rhetorical question.
Categories: adventures
Canadian passenger trains do not, on any level, function like European trains.
My first experience with long-haul train travel was the Eurostar route from London to Brussels. Second experience was the TGV from Brussels to Paris. Third train trip was Paris back to London. I came away loving train travel.
Train travel in Canada is a [...]
Categories: adventures
Swimming in the ocean. Twice since last Tuesday. Up to my neck. And careful of jellyfish. (I said hello for you.)
Riding in a boat beside dolphins showing off. Sprayed with salt water and bracing against the pitch and roll of a 35-foot boat. Thinking how the seals popping up in the water look very much [...]
Categories: adventures, explanations and things left unsaid
