Dear Grannie, I have been hiking through the Alps in Austria for the past month. We traversed over a glacier, mildly missed an avalanche, clamoured across vertical slopes, and slept 1,000 metres underground in a […]
Hiking the remote Andes
Children flash shimmering snow-capped teeth upon our arrival and come running to see what we bring. It’s one of the most isolated indigenous communities in Peru, which only sees a trickle of tourists pass through its […]
The reason why I write
Around 18 years ago my dad was writing pages of his life…I plan to eventually finish that off in a book. An excerpt from my dad’s story goes: My mom Alice came rushing in and […]
The truth about moving abroad
“Doesn’t this country have milk?” I said rather loudly while feverishly scanning every aisle of the grocery store stopping customers dead in their tracks. Then a man going about his business extended his tanned brawny […]
Finding solitude on the big lone mountain
In just one week our feet spanned over 500 million years of earth’s history. We climbed over ancient tropical sea floors, touched volcanic coastlines, and stood on 1.2 billion-year-old-blocks of granite. The mystery of this […]
A Year Full of Adventure
What an incredible year of adventures – WOO-WEE! Terry and I kicked off 2018 with soaring in a helicopter over the Rocky Mountains in Alberta, to climbing the Andes in Peru. You can read about […]
