I’ve stood on the 137 metre (450 feet) long and 70 metre (250 feet) high swinging bridge many times throughout my life. As a kid, it was thrilling, as a teenager, it was cool, and as an adult, well, it’s still both of those things. The Capilano Suspension Bridge was built in 1889 and...
The night was still, the sky fast asleep, and the stars the only other things awake. My friend Jordan and I left the handful of people not sleeping and venture out into the silent desert. We are staying in a Bedouin-like campsite in Wadi Rum, a 720 square metre desert in southern Jordan that...
We had heard that there was a precipitous break in the trail that had to be shimmied over on a skinny rock ledge. Every time we came to a drop off, we would say to each other, “Is this the one?” When we finally came to “the one,” it was pretty obvious: each of...
Remember glow worm toys, those dolls that light up when you squeeze them? I never thought they were based on anything real. Turks and Caicos While I was in Turks and Caicos to check out the exceptional Amanyara Villas*, I was out kayaking and noticed some holes in the sand. Looking much like the...
The first rapid is an easy class two. No one has ever fallen in. So seven of us paddle faster and faster towards it – I’m perched on the front left of the raft – lit only by the full moon at 11:00 pm. But we hit the rapid at an awkward angle. I...
It was the prettiest outhouse I had ever used. There was even a candle burning gently inside. To the left was a large bottle of water with a pump over a bowl, along with fruity smelling hand soup. But onto the mountain biking. Two-time national team athlete Dominique Larocque had a small group of...
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