In depth recounting of my global wandering
Lewis and Clark, the world’s shortest river (?) and becoming a Montana scofflaw. After I finished my morning in Vulcan, it was time to get back on the road and head south to the border crossing at Coutts on the …
Live long and prosper. In his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins coined the word meme and developed meme theory – the notion that ideas are subject to evolutionary pressures similar to those found in biology. …
I picked the wrong night to stay at the Hotel Blackfoot a few kilometers south of Calgary’s town center. There wasn’t a problem with my room, the meal, or any of the service. It was the wrong night simply because …
A visit to Johnston Canyon. Named for a prospector who discovered gold there some time prior to 1910, Johnston Canyon is neither remote nor off the beaten path but it presents a different aspect than the lakes and mountains of …
Barely a decade had passed after the establishment of the Confederation of Canada in 1867, before the European settlers began displacing the First Nations in the west. In 1877, the Canadian government and the First Nations signed Treaty Seven which …