In depth recounting of my global wandering
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …