July 11, 2022 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/DSCN1534-Horses-at-City-Hall-190x143.jpg

It’s probably fair to say that I visited Calgary as something of an accidental tourist. In the introductory post to this series I mentioned the irony that my old expired passport has more entry visa stamps from Germany than any …

July 8, 2022 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/pithouseeasternusudotedu-190x126.jpg

In some of the previous entries about early human habitation in North America I’ve explored some of the evidence regarding how and when the earliest people reached the continent so I won’t cover that ground again here. Instead, I’ll start …

July 7, 2022 https://gruncleodd.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/SLC-SkylineWasatchjay_dash_photographyfrom-visitutah-190x127.jpg

Recently, I was talking with someone about this Olympic host cities project and he expressed surprise that Salt Lake City had hosted a Winter Olympics because his impression of the city was that it’s relatively flat. He isn’t wrong. SLC …