Notes from the West Coast Trail
An adventure in which five women carry a combined one-hundred-and-ninety pounds of food, shelter and vodka seventy-five kilometers down the coast of Canada’s Vancouver Island. *** Day 1: Port Renfrew to Camper… Read More
Beyond the Aurora
“Where you folks from?” asks a weathered-looking woman standing at the front of the airport shuttle, eying me up and down as though already quite certain of the answer. Hailing from Toronto,… Read More
A Weekend by the Lake
I took the familiar left hand turn onto Limberlost Road and punched the trip button on the odometer. Twelve kilometers to the next turn – Alix’s directions were always exact. The cottage… Read More
An Olympic Tale
With the world poised to descend on Sochi, Russia for the Olympic Winter Games, I thought it was time to share perhaps the greatest Wannabe Wanderer tale yet untold – one of… Read More