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#bucketlist
August 3, 2015
It may have taken me two decades, but I can finally cross “visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater house” off my bucket list. In the nearly 20 years I worked at Masterfile, a stock photo agency, I frequently heard clients call in to request images of this magnificent estate. Unfortunately we couldn’t supply the images, because the commercial rights are […]
Viva Cuba
October 5, 2014
When my wife Jody and I were at home researching our trip to Jibacoa, we checked out a variety of travel advisory websites for tour guide recommendations, and wrote down the contact info for a man whose name kept recurring: Humberto Mesa. Once we were at our resort and had hooked up with the lovely […]
#endlesssummer
July 23, 2014
For two people who love to travel as much as Jody and I do, going a year and a half without so much as a camping trip was a long haul. Unfortunately we had one newly adopted dog who was too neurotic to board, and one elderly dog who was too sick to leave. When […]
Throwback Thursday: NYC
January 23, 2014
New York’s been in the news a little more than usual lately, what with their new mayor finding his snow legs (we can only dream of such minor squabbles over snow removal here in Toronto), and Jimmy Fallon about to move The Tonight Show back to its 30 Rock roots next month. It’s made me […]
Into the Wild – Part Two
March 3, 2013
I needn’t have worried about sleeping in on day two of our safari; I was crawling around in the brush outside our hut with my camera just after dawn. Heaven. My heart stopped at least twice when the grasses that brushed my ankle mimicked the tickle of spider legs, or the slither of a snake…but thankfully […]
Into the Wild – Part One
February 4, 2013
January 7, 2013: the day I checked “safari in Africa” off my bucket list. Deciding which game reserve to visit when planning this trip was no easy task. Jody consulted all the tourist advisory websites, and as you may expect, everyone extolled the virtues of Kruger National Park, with everything else apparently paling in comparison. […]
Privilege
January 22, 2013
We passed this township many times on our South African trip, as it was located next to the highway we used to reach our safari, winery tours, and so on. All the activities that tourists are supposed to enjoy, encouraged to do, yet which left me feeling ashamed each time this scene whizzed past our […]
Desperate times
January 12, 2013
The experiences we had on our safari were so varied and unique that we were hard-pressed to name a favourite. However, Jody and I both wrote on our feedback form at our lodge that seeing the white rhinos was the highlight for each of us, and it was. We caught sight of the mother and […]
Boulders Beach Penguins
January 10, 2013
Times have changed. When Jody was last here, part of the attraction of going to see the African penguins at Boulders Beach was the physical interaction with them. It was possible to walk along the rocky beach where they lived, and even swim in the water with the small birds. Sounds idyllic, but the reality […]