Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
Driving through the rocky mountains is always an memorable experience, one evoking primitive instincts of worship, as if those ancient peaks were themselves pagan gods of old. Serving as background noise was my friend Tyson’s strange, yet wonderful, taste in indie music in this case the song “One Great City” by the Weakerthans a satirical …
Just east of Toronto, along the magnificent shores of Lake Ontario, you will find the Toronto Suburb of Scarborough. Although mostly unremarkable by any stretch of the imagination it does have two distinct attractions the “Ontario Famous” Scarborough Bluffs and Guild Park and Gardens (Guildwood Park), a monument to Toronto’s 20th century past. Speaking of …
This pretty northern railway town along the shores of Lake Nippising is always a lovely stopoff. Although long removed from its glory days, this important crossroads where Samuel de Champlain once canoed, and fur traders sailed down Lake Nippising to the Georgian Bay via the French River, still holds a surprising charm although it is …
Lacing up my shoes in the Mono Cliffs parking lot I listened to these two annoying girls from Toronto, talking about how badly labelled the park signage was. This was to my contentment as the Mono Cliffs mapping and signage is very well executed. Typical of some of the less experience hikers coming from the …
At the northern extent of Grey County, not far from the town of Owen Sound, you will find one of Ontario’s premier waterfalls, that of Eugenia Falls. Located in the Beaver Valley (part of the same system as Old Baldy), the falls are an extension of the Beaver River that runs through the area. This …
Northern Ontario can be breathtaking, yet only a fraction of Canadians get to experience its unparalleled beauty, and most of those people are hunters and anglers – men and women used to the remote nature of the land of endless lakes and thick impenetrable forests. It is on one of these trips north that I …
Welcome to the northern terminus of Lake Temiskaming. In this post we examine a little section of Lake Temiskaming, specifically the town of New Liskeard, and it’s rich heritage as well as the natural beauty that surrounds it. No longer is this corner of Ontario reserved for mining, today the area is a hub for …
Deep into the northern extremity of of Algonquin Park, where access is not provided by the paved asphalt comforts of Highway 60, lies a region of a distinct natural beauty. Accessed via an active gravel logging road, it is much less crowded, yet just as worth seeing. This article is a stub of the much …
The ancient city of Thebes, where the Nile river gently flows by the ruined Great Hypostyle Hall of yonder, is a marvelous place. After the fall of the Pharaohs, the land of Upper Egypt, the power center of the New Kingdom, lied forgotten, ravaged by time and unfortunate neglect. Once this city would have been …
Completing his journey to Cairo, Burckhardt’s exploits made waves in the archeological community and set the template for the African explorer Richard Burton who would travel to Mecca under the guise of a Muslim a few decades later. This act is still forbidden today, so this was seen as quite the daring exploit. Johann lied …
