I had just retired, had lots of time on my hands so.....why not drive them to the Maritimes and see and meet many of the people I had not seen since I was a child?. Time was running out because every few months there was news of somebody else dying.....we were all getting too old to put off these kinds of trips.So, I told Dad I would give him nearly one month of my time.....I was meeting friends in New York City and then starting a consulting contract the day I ...

My dear Dad is an adventurer. Just writing that it seems like a crazy understatement. He was a career military guy - joined the army in his small coal mining town of Stellerton in the Maritimes and dreamed of seeing the world. The adventure began there and really has never ended. He was stationed all over Canada, was in Korea during the Korean War, was in Egypt for the skirmishes there, spent time in Japan, was in Congo for a pretty long time and once we kids ...

One October morning a seat sale for Cuba came across my work computer. Being the resident bargain hunter for travel - both mine and others, I called the friend who had asked me to keep an eye out for a Cuban deal. She was not at her desk - I left a voice mail. I told a different friend and she said "why don't we go?"  Never having had an interest in going to Cuba before, I gave it a couple of seconds thought....Why not? Hadn't been there before so co...