Backpacking Cougar

Often as you get older, you hear yourself saying things about the younger generation. “It wasn’t like that in our day”, “we would never have done that”, and ripping them to shreds when the occasion is called for. Its no secret that I’m not fond of small people and babies, but I do adore young adults and teenagers. They are generally IT savvy and have a sense of adventure and entitlement that I wish I had possessed back in the day. On many of my travels over recent years, youn

When I flew into Calgary on Friday, I was late picking up the rental car I had booked because of the drama that had caused the airport to go into lockdown mode. I was a little anxious because it was after 5 pm and I was hoping the rental car would have been still available given that I had been scheduled to pick it up a few hours earlier. When I found the place, the woman behind the counter was nice enough, despite continually trying to upsell the whole time I was at her de

Looking out the window of the hostel lobby in Banff this morning I am having a bit of a chuckle about the events of yesterday. Events that could have had such a different ending but they didn’t, and so I am here, still enjoying my own self-deprecating sense of humour and getting ready to head off into the Canadian Rockies to explore. Normally my travels are filled with cock-ups, low level drama and plenty of disappearing acts up my own arse, as I try and navigate my way aroun

Param is a shuttle driver in Seattle that is contracted to the company we had booked to pick us up from the downtown hostel we had stayed in overnight to drop us off at the airport to fly back to Vancouver He wasn’t scheduled to arrive until 8. 00 am but we had lugged all the bags down stairs about 15 minutes earlier in anticipation. The trouble with staying in hostels and using shared bathrooms along your hall, is that you need to take everything with you all in one go so

It was Saturday morning and we were only in the MacDonald’s Restaurant in North Pole using the free WIFI in an effort to try and locate someone who could attend to that beeping propane alarm that had been going off in our camper all night. Despite removing the fuse, it had kept us sleeping with one eye open all night ensuring we didn’t wake up dead! It was a restless night, lying with the windows open while battling monstrous mosquitos hoping there wasn’t really a gas leak so