On Saturday, June 6th, Day 9 of the trip, we drove another 230 km north to Shoal Brook, one of several communities in Gros Morne National Park. Gros Morne was one of our main destinations in Newfoundland – although we only had one firm plan, a boat tour, we...

Friday, June 5th, Day 8 of the trip, was our first day of exploring Newfoundland, and it was a beauty, with a fine example of what passion can accomplish with a ruined stone building, and a walk to a nice waterfall. We also picked up a rented Starlink Mini...

On June 3rd, Day 6 of the trip, we picked up our motorhome, then took until the night of June 4th to travel just over 400 km to the North Sydney ferry terminal. Sunrise on the 3rd was officially at 05:31, and it was a glorious start to the...

Day 4 of the trip (June 1) was a very enjoyable day of just wandering around the Halifax waterfront, but the next day we were on a mission, to experience what we had identified as the three museums that would best help us understand the Halifax area. First, the...

Any of you who travel know that there’s never enough time. That’s certainly the case with Halifax, Nova Scotia – the downtown and waterfront area deserves a week of exploring. But all we have is two days. By last night – the end of Day 4 of the trip...

We’ve started our 41-day Adventure to Newfoundland. This is now Day 4 – we arrived in Halifax yesterday afternoon. The journey began early on May 27th, with a 06:20 Air North flight from Whitehorse to Calgary, where we’d spend 2 days visiting family. The weather forecast had indicated it...

I needed to go into town yesterday to pick up a couple of things, so took my hiking and camera gear with the idea of putting about 4 km on, though I didn’t have a plan for where that might happen. Nothing inspired me and I was on my...

I’m writing this post because it’s quite different than the Venus Mine hike on May 15th. First, I took another person, but we also climbed all the way up to the upper level and adit, which is mostly what I want to show you. After seeing my post about...

The Venus Mine has become not just an awesome destination for a hike, but also a test for me to assess how I’m doing. Being able to reach the mine is always extremely gratifying, and I was about 65 years old when I recognized it as something to celebrate...

This post is from my Wayback Machine. I wrote this article and drew the map for the Four Wheel Drive Association of BC, and it was published in the Spring 1990 edition of their newsletter. I have added photos to it for this blog post – the originals are...