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It has been 15 years since I wrote about sex in the tent, a newspaper article that was printed across Canada except for a few places where editors claimed that “the local men wouldn’t like it.” Here may be the reason why some men wouldn’t like it. It is summer. You and your partner…
Read MoreCuevos de las Manos is a UNESCO protected archeological site bordering Francisco P Moreno National Park in Argentina’s Patagonia. To get there I caught a local bus that rambled along the dusty road from Puerto Moreno, an isolated village about a 150 kilometers in every direction from nowhere. During my three-hour trip, the only visual…
Read MoreWhen Dave King arrived in Prince George in 1973 to work the for forestry service as a biologist, he had a pet Raven that he took everywhere. He took it to work where it squawked when Dave had to answer questions to those far less knowledgeable than himself about forestry in the region. It pecked…
Read MoreCarellin is an urbanite, much happier in a pair of Miz Mooz New York City boots than any first-rate Murrell Hiking Runner even if Murrell offers modern glowing colours. But her nine-year-old daughter, Clover, isn’t aware of high fashion yet. She’s interested in everything including hiking, school and friends. Clover did her first hike…
Read MoreI burned my purse with my bra back in the ’70s, replacing it with a daypack. I also shifted from high-heeled shoes and tight dresses to jeans and hiking boots. I had two kids at the time, one on the hip and the other in hand and trying to stick diapers, face cloth, toys, bottles,…
Read MoreI first saw Charles sitting on his backpack, snuggled between a bunch of Nepalese peasants in the back of an old, beat up, Indian-made truck. He looked out of place with his creamy white skin and in his sparkling white shirt, his leopard-skin silk scarf, his designer, button-down jeans and his brown felt fedora. …
Read MoreThe Northern Lights have seen queer sights, But the queerest they ever did see Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge, I cremated Sam McGee. The wind across Lake Laberge whispered the story of Sam McGee, a deck-hand and part-time prospector who was cremated in the boiler of the Alice…
Read MoreWeathered wood cabins with solar panels and cedar-shake roofs frame the man-made Nam Tien Lake that shimmers like dancing diamonds in the tropical sun of Laos. I follow the scent of frangipani blooming along the walkway and bordering the lush green jungle beyond, to the dining hall where a donation box invites me to…
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