by admin | May 12, 2019 | Canada, The Dining Car
The Yellow Deli Roughly 100 km outside of Vancouver, through the Fraser Valley toward the interior, sits the township of Chilliwack. Home to some 100,000 residents, bordered to the north and south by mountains, and surrounded by large swathes of farmland, one might...
by Ian | May 26, 2019 | Canada, Canada
Say ‘Goodbye’ and Wave ‘Hello’ – Musings from YVR Airport In the winter of 1999, on a bus travelling from Bruxelles to Bordeaux, I met a man named Dave. I had placed cotton swabs between each of my toes because huge blisters had formed from all of my exploring...
by Ian | Mar 24, 2020 | Canada, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
Travel in the Age of CoVid-19 I was staring up at the big board as beads of sweat formed on my brow. It could have been the 32-degree heat in Bali, or it could have been the fact that I was tracking the uncertain status of a flight called JQ116. But deep inside I was...
by Ian | Aug 8, 2020 | Canada
The Water-witcher of Valemount The saying goes: Dig the well before you get thirsty. Out here in the valley between the mountains and in the shadow of mighty Mount Robson, water from the ground is essential to life and business and getting it is the work of the town...
by Ian | Aug 12, 2020 | Canada
People of Canada Sean’s parents need to organize activities for him for fear that he would waste his summer days doing nothing but playing Fortnight. Unfortunately, most of the summer activities they had planned for him have been suspended indefinitely so there isn’t...
by Ian | Aug 17, 2020 | Canada
The Horse Thief of the Red Deer River Valley His name to the Plains Cree translated as Walks Off the Trail though it was long and difficult to pronounce for the white settlers on the frontier who referred to him as Reindeer John. He was a proud Blackfoot who was well...
