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What counts as a “visit” when traveling?
I have a rule about traveling. Specifically, I have a rule about how I talk about traveling. When someone asks have you ever visited a place then my response is often… well… technically, that depends… sorta… kinda… here let me explain… So, here. Let me explain. I’ve been poking through a lot of travel blogs
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One Last Trek
During the summer of 2017 we travelled with friends just across the Alberta-British Columbia border to one of the highest peaks in Canada, Mount Robson and to climb the Berg Lake trail. Lucky those friends came along, because they remembered to bring something we forgot: strong tape. Good boots are one of the most important pieces of
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Iceland: Rotten Like a Shark
It’s Travel Tuesday and digging through my collection of interesting travel pictures I’m reminded of a half-dozen years ago when we went on a ten day family vacation in Iceland. My goals for that trip were: Find lots of epic scenery. Take lots of amazing photos. Eat lots of interesting foods. Hákarl is an Icelandic
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Sculpting Sand & Polar Vortexes
The cold is breaking. Where I live in Edmonton, Canada, a small city of about a million people in the middle of the Canadian prairies, it gets cold. Yet, even a stretch of brutal chill is mostly unusual. A polar vortex as they called it, where we’ve not had a day this month where the