Tag: travel

Cougar Annie was a legendary character on the west coast.  At the end of a five-day hike around the Hesquiat Peninsula with friends, we received a tour of Cougar Annie’s garden led ...

I can still remember my first bike.  It was a red “girls” bike with a matching red and white seat.  I called it Thunder, pretending it was a horse, and rode it ...

At the end of August I hiked the Hesquiat trail with my husband and four other friends.  The trail follows the coast of the Hesquiat Peninsula, a large promontory just south of ...

In May 2024 I hiked the West Coast Trail, for the second time (last time was about 2004), with a couple friends.  The trail is a 75km journey that steals its way ...

We may not always realize how individuals and movements throughout time have shaped how we view the world today.  One example I recently learned about was in Andrea Wulf’s book:  The Invention ...

I was sitting at a table by myself in the Wells Hotel café, the morning after completing a family trip on the Bowron Lakes Canoe circuit, writing in my journal.  At the ...