Welcome to my new web site
Come travel Canada and the world with me in search of quirk. Where can you hunt Sasquatch and UFOs? Go to the edge of the ice floe to watch for narwhal? Take a walking polar bear safari? Gather for a…
Canada’s UFO tourism
Who knew that Canada was home to two UFO encounter sites that are so famous (famous as in well-documented) that the Royal Canadian Mint created a collector's coin immortalizing one of them? I dragged my family to Manitoba last summer…
A happy day winning three NATJA travel writing awards
Pinch me and then pour me a drink — I just won three writing awards from the North American Travel Journalists Association. A package of my Canada 150 stories in the Toronto Star won Gold in the Travel Series category for print…
Big things in Manitoba
Giant roadside attractions compel you jump out of your car for a selfie. This guy's in Gladstone, Manitoba, not far from Winnipeg. Glad stone. Happy rock. Get it? I'm slow. I passed by Happy Rock on my way to Riding…