Blogs from North America - page 7984

url='/Videos/4094.html' onclick='dialog("/Videos/4094.html?popped=1","tbvideo",600,600);return false;'Waterfall! Today I went up to the Wild Basin area where Robbi and her parents are staying for the summer. Her dad is retired but he is a seasonal park employee and works with the water in the national parks. The whole family is spending the summer in a cabin inside the park. It is absolutely amazing at their place, all you have to do is walk out the front door and you're ready to hike around the park. We were going to try to get to Calypso Cascades before Robbi had to go to work but we didn't quite make it there. Apparently we were so excited to get moving that we did a rather poor job of reading the signs. Instead of taking the path to Copeland falls that would lead to ... read more

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It's been a week now since we were in this beautiful area of BC just west of the Alberta border. Coming south-west from Jasper on hwy 16 you come first to Mt Robson (the highest mountain in BC.) The first shot with the purple (lupine?) in the foreground and the mountain in the back is taken from the field behind the Mt Robson info centre. The mountain in the shot is Mt Robson. From Hwy 16 you turn onto hwy 6 which brings you to Clearwater, directly below Wells Grey Provincial Park. Before even reaching the park there is about 40 km of road. 12k up the road there is an unassuming turnoff for Spahat Falls. The falls are just a 5minute walk from the parking lot and well worth it! Spectacular! I've only chosen ... read more

Today is the halfway point! Only 10 days left and both of us are still alive and talking to one another. It’s been a good trip so far and hopefully the rest of the trip continues the same way. On a side note, Chris woke up in the foulest of moods, due to a lack of food last night, however it quickly faded once we found some nourishment. We woke up and called Chris Olsen, who happens to live in town, to hang out with for the day. We’d already decided that we’d try some sushi before we left so he recommended we try Broadway Sreet (he didn’t come with since he’s not a fan). Sushi was amazing. Fish melted in the mouth. Excellent. I don’t know if we’ll be able to eat Ontario Sushi again. ... read more

Perhaps my musical selection as I write is a sign of a sort of unconscious nostalgia for Mexico, which we're sailing away from and towards new and certainly unexpected adventures in Panama. Silvestre Revueltas' bold orchestral work La Noche de los Mayas is a must-listen for the entire human race, and oddly enough, I recognized strains of it in one of the exhibit halls at Mexico City's most famous museum, the Museo Nacional de (la?) Antropología played over the sound system there. Right country, but wrong time period, as we were still a millennium or so away from the bulk of the artifacts from the Maya in the museum's holdings. *Note - not as many photos as I would like to include...upload times are quite slow, but I tried to pick the best/most interesting!* We ... read more