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Remembering Truth in Botswana
I’ve been thinking about some of the stranger things that have happened to me. This is stuff that I couldn’t make up if I tried. No one would believe me if I spoke of names like Truth and Justice...
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Build It And…
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” - Cesare Pavese “Build it and they will come.” So goes the maxim....
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Let’s Go to Cuba!
My freshly-pedicured toes are ensconced in my practical Nikes. I’m at Gate C51 waiting to board a flight for Toronto and then, two days later, Cuba. I have only taken a cursory look at the Cuba press...
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Travel As An Escape
Heather Heights – Colleen Friesen People, myself included, will usually deny that travel is an escape. We often doth protest (perhaps a little too loudly) that it is a way of broadening the mind...
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FlipKey & TripAdvisor in Vancouver
Green Vancouver – Colleen Friesen Last week I was invited by FlipKey to co-host a Spring Getaway Twitter party. Sadly, this did not involve a new party frock or sparkly shoes. Instead, yesterday,...
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If You Liked That You’re Gonna Love This
“I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.” - Groucho Marx Hugo Leclerc Sharing a Joke with the Laughing Buddha – Colleen Friesen Every time I travel, I am struck anew...
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Sisterhood of the World Bloggers
Last week, Destinations and Dreams blogger, Donna Janke, kindly included my blog on a lovely list for the Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award. I was truly honoured to be included with some...
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Yukon Bound
A change is as good as a rest. It seems I’m ready for a change. So, tomorrow morning I’m flying north to the Yukon. The Yukon, according to Wikipedia, “is the westernmost and smallest of Canada’s...
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Carry On to London
Ye Olde Englande We’ve already started my pre-departure jet-lag protocol. Our trip starts (tomorrow) with three nights in London and then over to Ljubljana, and then, with our trusty rental car...
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London to Ljubljana
Goodbye London Life London already feels so long ago… I am sitting at our little apartment table, looking out from our second story window, over red tile roofs, ivy spilling over alley walls and,...
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Puerto Escondido
Today we met a couple on the beach, let’s call them Bob and Jane. They’re from Arkansas. Originally New York. Or maybe they’re from Denver. Or perhaps Saskatoon. It really doesn’t matter… This...
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Why I Love Oaxaca
Maybe it’s the colour. Or the fact that the elevation combines with the sunlight to create such dramatic shadows. Or maybe it’s the architecture, those glimpses behind walls into courtyards,...
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How To Handle The Heat in Mexico
Ta-Weeet-Ta-Weeet-Ta-Weeet. The birdsong is sharp and insistent, a top note, a line of soprano. Beneath it is a constant throaty coo-coo-coo, the seemingly infinite through-line of a dove....
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Toiletry Tips for Tiny Trailers
This Is Why We Travel – Colleen Friesen I am balancing on my right foot, the left, still dripping, is pulled carefully from the shower-wet flip-flop and slid into the dry land of my waiting...
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Lessons From the Road Ahead
You’ve Got Mail! – Colleen Friesen On a long driving day, there comes a point in the late afternoon…say around five or six-ish. Maybe we’re both a little hungry, maybe we’re both thinking that we...
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Lost in Trailer Life Time
Maps – Colleen Friesen Yesterday I put a post-it note on our dash. It read: Saturday, May 28th, 2016. It was a joke. A lousy and rather dark piece of humour in its reminiscence of the Menno Home...
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Nomadic Lifestyle
Cape Breton During every trip there would always came a moment when I would feel an almost overwhelming compulsion to get home. Kevin would mention it too (perhaps not quite as dramatically), but...
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Hiking and Helicopters
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” – Blanche DuBois from Tennessee Williams’- A Streetcar Named Desire On the Bridge – Colleen Friesen Not all knights arrive on a white...
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Grey Owl – Fraudulent or Fabulous?
Grey Owl (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938) – Wikipedia Grey Owl didn’t quite make it his 50th birthday. Yet somehow, despite a rather large drinking problem…he managed to become an iconic...
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Cycling in Quebec
Kevin in the Rain – Colleen Friesen The rain, on the first day of our P’tit Train du Nord cycling trip in the Laurentiens, was kind of like being in a car wash, without, of course, those...
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