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With summer in full swing, our bicycles are tuned up, tested and ready for fun. We live in one of the best cycling areas in the country, filled with scenic rides for everyone. Here are three separate day trips to ponder. Read more...
Why are more and more seniors cranking up Steppenwolf's "Born to Be Wild," strapping on leathers, and climbing onto hogs on steroids before blasting down highways and byways? Because they can! Read more...
Standing amid elegant log structures, we gaze eastward over green pasturelands rolling toward the Marble Mountains. To the west, wooded hills border a grassy valley that goes on forever. Read more...
I Am Woman: See Me Travel. It may not surprise you that women travellers are among the fastest growing client segment in the packaged travel industry. Read more...
Saint Augustine once said, "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." Seniors dedicated to a lifestyle of continued learning, personal health and general well-being are definitely not content to stay on the same page. Read more...
It's June, the bees are buzzing, flowers are blooming and we're making good time as we speed along the empty road free for now from the usual glut of campers. Read more...
During the mid-1800s, 61-kilometre-long Harrison Lake was part of the main route to the Cariboo goldfields. Falling from a canoe, a prospector expecting frigid waters discovered a future hotspot instead: Harrison Hot Springs! Read more...
The Broughton archipelago lies between northern Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia. Read more...
"If you can dream it, you can do it, so get out of your own way and make your dreams come true!" -Barb Reese Read more...
What types of R&R come to mind when you think of Hawaii Island? Relaxing on beaches, rolling in the surf, revitalizing at a spa? How about riding the range? Read more...
A cross-country train journey and swimming with endangered Manatees meant two less items on this Bucket List. Read more...
Searching for ghosts at Marlon Brando's former hideaway - Tetiaroa. Read more...
It started last January. I was reading the Travel Section in the newspaper line by line as I pedalled on my stationary bike. Read more...
What comes to mind when you hear Rideau Canal: a gem-like waterway flowing between the cities of Kingston and Ottawa or a Canadian story featuring ambition, struggle and success? Maybe thoughts of its honourable designation as a UNESCO World Heritage Site or the world's longest skating rink come to mind. Read more...
Sidney Senior Care, the largest private senior home support agency on the Saanich Peninsula and in Greater Victoria, is breaking new ground in the home support industry by providing better service levels and more personalized care. Read more...
On October 26, 2010 as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Vancouver Canucks, the team held a ceremony to recognize Orland Kurtenbach, the first captain of the Vancouver NHL team. Read more...
"The Argentine tango is the only tango," says Claude Esposito with a smile. "It is in my blood." Read more...
A Vancouver Island secret lies at the corner of Nanaimo Lakes Road and White Rapids Road in Nanaimo. And Jonanco Hobby Workshop members are excited for its revelation. Read more...
"If you want to meet people, take up dancing," says Neil Fleischmann, who met his wife, Carmen, the night they both signed up for the same class with the Victoria Ballroom Dance Society. Read more...
Highway 101 hugs the California, Oregon and Washington coastlines to Port Angeles, then, re-emerging north of Vancouver, continues another 139km along two spectacular peninsulas. Read more...
By Gipp Forster
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By Chris Herbert
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By Mathieu Powell
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Holiday Touch We interview Rob Davies of Victorian at McKenzie. Part of the Holiday Touch chain, Victorian at McKenzie has cluster care services, on-site, live-in managers, and an amazing travel program that allows their residents to travel to any one of over three hundred and twenty communities in North America where they can stay and eat... for FREE. CLICK HERE
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Berwick Retirement Communities has made a very clear statement about how this small, family-owned BC company intended to elevate the quality of life for its residents.
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