Intrepid Traveller: Janet Goes Walking – Part 2
This was it. After walking almost 800 kilometres in 31 days, I was about to arrive at what I thought would be my final destination:
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Intrepid Traveller: Janet Goes Walking – Part 1
It started with the Wife of Bath. I was about 17 years old when I first read Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. I felt a strong kinship
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Not Quite Alone in the Desert
The highest peaks of the Animas mountains in the east are already colouring light pink. As the road dips slightly through an arroyo, there are
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Intrepid Traveller: The Love Meter
I was cleaning out my dresser drawers the other day and stumbled upon my old silver charm bracelet, a Christmas present from my mom when
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Snake for Supper
Creosote bush as far as the eye can see. We are driving out of Animas in the far south-west corner of New Mexico. Only small
Intrepid Traveller: The Power of Shoes
My love of patent leather shoes started pretty early on. I remember at the age of 11 going into the local shoe shop with my
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Wind’s Abaft the Beam: Pt. 3
Sailing terms irk me. Wind’s abaft the beam? What’s wrong with “the wind’s from behind”? Coming about, prepare to gybe, helm’s alee? How about, “The
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Wind’s Abaft the Beam: Pt. 2
Currents, tides, winds. It is a lot for me to keep track of while trying to remember how to hoist a mainsail (loosen the mainsheet,
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Wind’s Abaft the Beam, Pt.1
Impetuous. Reckless. Hasty. That’s how my partner John and I ended up in Victoria, British Columbia in early June last year, purchasing a sailboat when
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Intrepid Traveller: Island of Dreams
I admit to approaching the Island of Capri with some trepidation. I had heard how overrun it was going to be with wealthy tourists who
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Intrepid Traveller: La Dolce Vita Along the Amalfi Coast
Driving Italy’s Amalfi Coast had long been on my ‘bucket list’, when my teenage son needed some down time, I left him in our hotel.
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Intrepid Traveller: Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
t was the wise Dr. Seuss who wrote, “Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!” And what finds there are to
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