Beautiful Quebec City, A Winter Wonderland
There is no city more beautiful in the middle of Winter than Quebec City. Dave filmed there a few years ago for the Christmas movie Blizzard with Whoopie Goldberg and Christopher Plumber. If it is a magical enough setting for a Hollywood holiday film, it is certainly magical enough for us to spend a few days there in the heart of the cold season.
Canoe Algonquin Park, Canada’s Wilderness
It is a badge of honor for anyone living in Ontario Canada. High Schools send students on a trip at the end of each year, cub scouts go on an annual canoe route and dad’s around the province take their sons and daughters out for a week of bonding on one of the may routes within the 2000 km of optional waterways.
My Home Town, Toronto for Matador U
I will never forget that beautiful winters day in 1991. Dave and I were graduating from college and we were moving to Toronto together from the town of Oakville. I was a small town girl growing up in Otterville. Dave was my big city hero raised Burlington Ontario. We fell in love with Toronto’s West end that day and 18 years later we are still here
2010 Chevrolet Equinox, A Review
We weren’t asked by General Motors to write a review about the new 2010 Chevrolet Equinox. We weren’t even asked by them to blog about our time on the Chevy Equinox Rocky Mountain Adventure. Like everything that we put on this site, we only write about what excites and inspires us. If we didn’t love our experience and find it worth sharing with you, we wouldn’t post it. So, after test driving the 2010 Chevy Equinox we came to the conclusion that, this vehicle could be our next purchase. It has everything that fits the adventurers needs and then some.
Trekking the Athabasca Glacier on our Rocky Mountain Adventure Drive
It was sad to see our Rocky Mountain Adventure end. We really enjoyed ourselves with the gang from General Motors and the other bloggers and writers in the group. But it was our last day driving the Equinox and it was time to head out for our final adventure. We were going to walk on the Athabasca Glacier at the Columbia Ice Fields.
Canoe Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Alberta
While paddling Dave commented on what an “Authentic Canadian Moment” we were having – Canoeing in the Rocky’s on the majestic Lake Louise. He managed to take some great views of the Glacier from a different angle than what others were stuck with being in front of the Chateau Fairmont. Also, looking back towards the hotel was quite beautiful and having the structure in front of the hills and forests gave a great perspective of just how large the land is.
Climbing In Canmore, Alberta With the Chevy Equinox Adventure Drive
We have always wanted to climb in the Rocky Mountains. Finally, the day had come on the Chevy Equinox Adventure Drive. On Day one, Dave and I drove ourselves in our spiffy 2010 Equinox to Canmore where we met James; our guide from Yamnuska Mountain Adventures. It is the premier climbing school in the Rocky’s so we were in very good hands.
Chevy Equinox Rocky Mountain Adventure – Part 1; An Overview
Alberta is home to simply the most beautiful mountain range we have ever seen on the planet. Driving north from Calgary towards the Rocky Mountain range was breathtaking. We could only come up with one word over and over. Another writer on the drive Chris, used the word Dramatic to describe the drive while we were eating dinner the first night and he was right. Once those rocky mountains appeared we just couldn’t get the word “dramatic” out of our heads.
Chevy Equinox, Rocky Mountain Adventure; Day 1
The Chevy Equinox Adventure is underway and we are so excited to start driving today!
Drinks Round the World: The Canada Cocktail
It is the first of the month and this tradition is catching on. Started by TheTravelExperta and LifeCruiser Drinks Round the World is a fantastic way for Travel Bloggers to unite and share a cocktail together. Right now we are in Canada, and we want to start our own little tradition at the PlanetD of having a drink that is traditional, unique or popular in the Country that we are happen to be in when the first of the month comes around.
Wildlife Wednesday; The Wolves of Haliburton Forest
About 3 hours north of Toronto way up in Central Ontario is one of our favorite places in the Province. Haliburton forest is a nature lovers dream. A place for hiking, mountain biking and canoeing in the summer and cross country skiing and dog sledding in the winter. But it is the Haliburton Forest Wild Life and Reserve that has kept us coming back.
Drinks ‘Round the World, The Bloody Caesar
We all really do love our Bloody Ceasars. It never fails, if you are out with a group of people and one person orders a Ceasar, several people will follow suit and order as well. There is even a campaign here where a person is at a bar ordering a Ceasar and everyone else changes their order to Ceasars too. It is not that far fetched, once you see one, you gotta have one.
Favourite Attractions at Niagara Falls
It is the peak of our tourist season here in Ontario, so I thought that I would write a post for anyone visiting Toronto now or in the near future to let them our favorite attractions in Niagara Falls.
Freefalling at Niagara Falls; Work Can be Play
This week was no exception. We spent 2 days running around Niagara Falls checking out and promoting some sights.
Toronto’s Garbage Strike, A Reminder of our Global Plastic Problem
In Toronto we have banned plastic bags. It is now the law. We are also going through a garbage strike and parks and parking lots are being used as temporary dumps. It got me to thinking about our time in Cambodia.
“One Week” The Little Film about Big Things in Canada
when I rented the movie One Week starring Joshua Jackson of Dawson’s Creek and more recently Fringe fame, I really wanted to hop in my car and drive west along the Trans Canada Highway to see what this country has to offer. It was a beautiful film that was certainly a “Love Letter to Canada” as one reviewer put it.
Scuba Diving the Bay Islands: Utila, Honduras
Utila is known on the backpacker circuit as a cheap place to get your divers certification, people come to Utila for one thing and one thing only. To Dive. Dave and I were no exception. We had been diving for a year in Canada. And were already certified rescue divers. We had logged our hours and were ready to finish our Dive Masters in the warm clear waters of Honduras.
Boats and Buses From Belize to Honduras, What a Trip
We booked a boat in Belize City to Puerto Cortes, Honduras. We made it in one piece just barely, and we had a lot of time to get over our nausea. Finally the border patrol arrived. One man and one man only processed 50 people. It was getting late in the day and we didn’t have much time to make our way across the island to catch our ferry to Utilla.
Remembering Belize: A Diver’s Journey Through Central America
Look Up! The man yells as we pull our dive gear and carry our packs from the bus station to the waterfront of Belize City. Hesitant, we worry that he is trying to distract us to relieve us of our abundance belongings
Peru. Checking off More of the Life List before we Kick the Bucket
Last year a fantastic movie with Jack Nickleson and Morgan Freeman came out, and everyone jumped on the band wagon of making a “Bucket List.” I am glad that this started getting people to finally get out there and start living their lives. Now that we have crazy and more extreme ambitions and it is nice to visit places like Victoria Falls or Egypt, where we can tick a bunch items on our “bucket list” in one destination. That was what it was like when we visited Peru.
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