December In Europe Chapter 3 – Eating Dessert First After almost a month of visiting friends and relatives in Ontario, Maggie and I boarded an Icelandic Air flight to Paris. Long distance flights can go either way, depending on the airline. Although the cost of our one-way tickets was relatively cheap the routing included a…
Chapter Two – Eating Dessert First By early November the clouds hang low over Kootenay Lake. The view across the Kaslo Bay and beyond is often obscured by rain showers or fog and we begin to think of far away places. The main street of town, which has been bustling and busy since early May…
A Winter In Europe Chapter One October 2018 Another Wild adventure The Plan In the spring of 2013 Maggie and I, on a wing and a dare, embarked on a three month tour of western Europe with a couple of packs and an unlimited train pass. We flew into Barcelona and a few days later…
During the last 20 years, Wal-Mart has moved into communities and destroyed them, wiping out stores, slashing the tax base, and turning downtown areas into ghost-towns. This is accomplished through Wal-Mart’s policy of paying workers below subsistence wages, and importing goods that have been produced under slave-labour conditions overseas. Often, communities will even give Wal-Mart…
Hi Folks, (this email is being sent to many of our friends who are wondering, “Where the heck are they now?) We left Balfour on the 10th of October for Kelowna where we spent Thanksgiving weekend with Erik, Laurel and Haley (Erik’s sweetie). Haley is attending her second year of kinesiology and Erik has taken…
The young lady sits before me surveying the activity of the combination train/bus stop. I absent-mindedly think she must be waiting for a train, or a bus. On her shoulder there is etched a flock of odd looking prehistoric birds, possibly pterodactyls. She slowly moves from the direct sun into the shade. There is a…
Comes a time in even the most trusting, caring and loving relationships when one partner has had enough and the other just can’t get enough. This can be an embarrassing scenario for both partners and often neither is willing to discuss possible solutions or compromises . Times like this are great opportunities for trial…
The state of Colima is on the west coast in about the middle of the country. Colima is one of the smallest states and one of the most prosperous per capita. On Hwy 200, heading south, you pass from neighbouring Jalisco at the Rio Marabasca. One of the first prominent features is the endless vistas…
Random Thoughts and Vague Memories 