We touched down in New York City two days ago with a hundred songs and movie scenes running through my head. You don't realize the impact this place has had on popular culture until you start walking around here. There is familiar stuff everywhere and even more stuff that is vaguely familiar that you know you've heard of before and should recognize. We visited this City eight years ago and fell in love with it. It is one of only three places we are visiting t...

Tomorrow we leave Canada for nine months. We'd originally wondered if a little more than two months in our own country at the start of our trip was the right way to go. Obviously I don't know the answer to that question so early in the trip, but I do know that two months is barely enough time to scratch the surface of what this country has to offer. At best, we've narrowed down a summertime list of places we'd love to get to know better. That's saying someth...

They say no other sense recalls the memory like the sense of smell. There is a lovely woman in my office who wears the same perfume my grandmother once wore. Each time I pass her in the hallway I am transported back in time to a childhood full of big hugs, cherry blossoms, Mars bars, Siamese cats and Sunday roasts of beef. Tonight, it's the smell of campfire that's brought me back in time. We're in Bay Bulls on the Avalon Peninsula visiting our friends forme...

Happy Birthday Mira! Hope you have fun celebrating 10 with everyone in Newfoundland! Well after three vehicles, three ferries, two trains, one flight, one bus, one sea kayak a tandem bike, nearly two months and over 15,000 kms, we have finally arrived in Newfoundland. There really is no place like home. After a visit to historic Louisbourg, we crossed the Cabot Straight on the MV Highlanders on the night of September 27. We were lucky to get a cabin at the l...

Lately when I wake up it takes me a few moments to remember where we are. I usually have to walk through the previous days' activities to arrive at our final resting point. Right now we are on Prince Edward Island. We left Halifax yesterday afternoon and drove across the Confederation Bridge passing through New Brunswick en route. No matter how many times you visit this historic Isle you can't help being captured by its beauty. The bright red mud, caused by i...