EVERY TOWN HAS ITS SUMMER FAIR, BUT ALMOST NO ONE GOES AS BIG AS CALGARY DOES WITH STAMPEDE. For over a hundred years – the exact beginning is up for debate – Calgary has been celebrating its very prairie image …
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First Time at NASCAR with the People of Talladega
EVERYBODY KNOWS THE HISTORY OF NASCAR BY NOW, RIGHT? Moonshiners and bootleggers with juiced-up cars built to outrun the law start racing on dirt tracks, and end up starting a billion dollar motorsport empire that takes place on massive racetracks …
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North to James Bay on the Polar Bear Express
THIS WAS A TRIP I HAD DREAMED OF TAKING SINCE I WAS A KID. The journey to James Bay from Cochrane, Ontario wasn’t the most glamorous or scenic of all the railway trips I took during Canada’s sesquicentennial year. There …
Artists, Expats and Mariachis in San Miguel de Allende
THERE ARE PROBABLY PEOPLE WHO STILL THINK THAT MEXICO IS ONE BIG ALL-INCLUSIVE BEACH RESORT. Thankfully – at least for those of us who don’t tan or can’t swim – it’s a much bigger country than Cancun, Acapulco and Cabo. …
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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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