In depth recounting of my global wandering
Having unsurprisingly failed to condense my Paris visit to a single post, I’ll try to wrap up the three succeeding days in this entry before taking a look at the pair of Parisian Olympiads. Saturday. Sometimes, as they say in …
Unlike the earliest entries in this series such as those for Montreal and Atlanta, I’ve written about my more recent visits to Olympic host cities elsewhere in this blog and that’s the case for Paris – the penultimate city for …
I’ve written before about some of the reasons I include posts about subjects such as geology or archaeology that are seemingly peripheral aspects of travel. One I haven’t mentioned is that in the course of learning about a place in …
Not the mountains, not the prairies. In supplement one for Salt Lake City, I introduced the term physiography and it’s going to be useful again as I write about Calgary and the nearby area. Technically, you can find three of …
The Winter Games Finally come to Canada. If you’ve read the Lillehammer tales, you already encountered two stories from the Calgary Olympics – the tragedy of Dan Jansen and the triumph of Bonnie Blair. Fortunately, there was more to the …