It’s summer in Canada and the big city is a little quieter these days. After a nine-day driving tour of the Canadian Badlands in southeastern Alberta, I was happy to spend a couple of days at a cottage near Georgian Bay in Ontario. It’s a very short walk to the “outhouse” and the water comes [...]
” The sky is ever sensed above Canada.” – Russian writer Andrei Voznesensky in 1971 Travellers headed west out of Calgary towards the mountains are focused on the growing Rockies, but the first thing that strikes me every time I drive east from the stampede city is the big sky. Perhaps it’s because I can’t [...]
Back in 2000, Niagara Falls Tourism asked us to help them get publicity for a big Valentine’s Day wedding. Four hundred lovers were tying the knot in a winter garden ceremony across from the American Falls. The event got me thinking how did Niagara Falls become the honeymoon capital of the world anyway? That’s when [...]
Besides being a long-lasting comic strip first published in 1918, and the second solo album by Rod Stewart released in 1970, Gasoline Alley is a collection of roadside eateries, gas stations, RV dealerships and assorted travellers’ diversions on a patch of highway 2 just south of Red Deer, Alberta. Some people think that Gasoline Alley [...]
