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Banoffee Swirl Ice Cream
Tales from the Cast Iron Guy Creamery If you, like me, avoid those recipe blogs that spend the first fifteen pages of text explaining the backstory of the recipe, then I have a treat for you… merely two paragraphs, a photo, and of course a delicious ice cream recipe to follow. Our travel-food story goes…
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Caribbean Star Wars Day & That Yoda Guy
It’s Star Wars Day. May the Fourth be with you. And back in February of 2013, we had a weird and wonderful Star Wars morning on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin (or Sint Maarten). While the idea of big ship cruising these days seems about as fantastic as starships and galaxies far, far away,…
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Moraine Lake Canoes in Pieces
In the summer of 2018 we spent a week backpacking in the Rocky Mountains near Lake Louise, Alberta, conquering a trail known as the route to Skoki Lodge. We roughed it, camping out of whatever we lugged on our backs up the nearly-twenty kilometer hike. Dehydrated food, lightweight gear, water filtered from a mountain stream,…
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Travel Eats: Smoked Fish and Bagpipes
In the summer of 2019 we spent two weeks in Scotland. My wife and daughter are competitive Highland Dancers with a dance school here in Canada, and every four years or so the school makes the trip overseas with a busload of dancers, parents, and teachers to participate in an authentic Scottish Highland Games. They…
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Camping: Of Annual Adventures Gone Awry
It’s Travel Tuesday and once again I’m reminded of the challenge of living through a global pandemic and a life dismantled by a thousand small cuts. You see, each year with — the exception of last year — we usually go camping with a small group of families. Eight adults. The same number of too-rapidly-growing-up…