I was invited to Thailand this spring by the Tourism Authority of Thailand to celebrate Songkran (Thai New Year). I was lucky enough to see the Joe Louis Puppet Theatre perform (the country’s “only troupe that still performs the Hun Lakhon Lek Thai traditional small puppet play and remains the sole guardian of this...
I always try to be somewhere or do something neat on my birthday. Last year I was in Haida Gwaii for the first time, and the year before that I was step dancing in Cape Breton. This year, I was home in Vancouver, so I had to come up with something interesting. The criteria?...
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 Dead Sea is a fascinating place. It’s 400 metres below sea level, the lowest point on earth. Its salty water (about 30% salt compared to seawater, which is about 3-4%) makes marine life pretty much non-existent. The amount of water that evaporates from the surface is millions of litres per day, making a...
The population of Jordan spans the western side of the country, from the north above Amman to the south western corner of Aqaba. I was intrigued, then, to hear about the eastern desert castles. A few main roads cut though the northern part of the eastern desert, mainly driven by trucks transporting goods across...
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...
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