THE STORY OF CANADA IS THE STORY OF RAILROADS. Or at least it was, for a crucial century where the country went from a vast wilderness to a former colony struggling to become a nation. Railroads were the technology that …
Category: Throwback Thursday
Ireland North and South from Game of Thrones to Star Wars
FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION TOOK ME BACK TO IRELAND. A year after the blockbuster revival of the Star Wars franchise with The Force Awakens, one of the locations for the film had created a tourism boom around a pair of …
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Through Montana to Yellowstone on the Beartooth Highway
MOST PEOPLE TRAVEL FOR AN EXPERIENCE, FOR VIEWS OR A MEAL. I travel to take pictures in new places. By the time I went to Montana in the summer of 2016, I had spent enough time as a travel journalist …
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From Vancouver to Banff on the Rocky Mountaineer
MY FIRST TRIP OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS FINALLY HAPPENED BECAUSE CANADA WAS CELEBRATING AN ANNIVERSARY. It was the country’s sesquicentennial – 150th anniversary, you know – and my editor at the travel section of the paper decided I would spent …
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Exercise Maple Guardian 2010: With the Troops in the Mojave Desert
MY WEEK IN THE MOJAVE DESERT WITH THE TROOPS wasn’t, strictly speaking, anybody’s idea of a vacation. There wasn’t much luxury to be found at Fort Irwin, where I spent a few days with one of the last groups of …
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