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Overlanding in Africa

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Overlanding in Africa

What are the chances that on a four-week trip through South Africa you are going to get to know a driver ...

What are the chances that on a four-week trip through South Africa you are going to get to know a driver with four wives; a man who was expelled from high school and now, between stints as a park rang ...

June 01, 2019
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Train Characters in Transylvania

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Train Characters in Transylvania

We were travelling from Budapest to Istanbul by train and it wasn’t just the scenery that was getting bet ...

We were travelling from Budapest to Istanbul by train and it wasn’t just the scenery that was getting better. By Transylvania, scenes of pocket-sized farms carved into dense forested hillsides were be ...

June 01, 2019
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The Road Ahead

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The Road Ahead

As I wander down the streets of my life, I look back over my shoulder and see that nearly everything I wa ...

As I wander down the streets of my life, I look back over my shoulder and see that nearly everything I wanted, I got, and nearly everything I wanted to do, I did, almost exactly as they were laid out ...

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Sorry Not Sorry

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Sorry Not Sorry

“You must be Canadian,” I often comment laughingly when someone apologizes for what doesn’t seem to need ...

“You must be Canadian,” I often comment laughingly when someone apologizes for what doesn’t seem to need an apology. As Canadians, we have a chronic need to apologize “all the time.” Due to the number ...

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Forging a Dichotomous Path

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Forging a Dichotomous Path

Barbara Allyn’s widespread legacy as a beacon of light and support to others began on a boat in the Victo ...

Barbara Allyn’s widespread legacy as a beacon of light and support to others began on a boat in the Victoria harbour in the 1970s. An unlikely place to launch a career as a trauma counsellor to be sur ...

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Compassion For Self

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Compassion For Self

Last November, I spent four days on Bowen Island with 60 other people learning about and sharing compassi ...

Last November, I spent four days on Bowen Island with 60 other people learning about and sharing compassion. Compassion for self, for others, for nature. I have already written about nature, so I thou ...

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Cruise Offers Insight Into Russian Culture

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Cruise Offers Insight Into Russian Culture

I am often asked what I liked best about a trip when I return home. Invariably I say the people. Most of ...

I am often asked what I liked best about a trip when I return home. Invariably I say the people. Most of the world’s population has the same priorities as I do: taking care of their families, cultivat ...

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I Met The Secret Smiler

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I Met The Secret Smiler

Watcher At a restaurant not too far from downtown Montreal, mornings were always full of noisy groups of ...

Watcher At a restaurant not too far from downtown Montreal, mornings were always full of noisy groups of people and the place was lively and fun. There were about 30 tables and a long counter with sto ...

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Travel is Transformative

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Travel is Transformative

Very few things in life have the power to change your perspective like travel does. There’s something abo ...

Very few things in life have the power to change your perspective like travel does. There’s something about opening yourself up to a new destination that spurs the Universe into giving you thoughts, f ...

August 02, 2018
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Grounding

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Grounding

Grounding – or sometimes referred to as Earthing – involves being in direct physical contact with the gro ...

Grounding – or sometimes referred to as Earthing – involves being in direct physical contact with the ground. A variety of gadgets can help you ground yourself if the weather is cold, but an easy and ...

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Lovin’ the Lavender Life

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Lovin’ the Lavender Life

When it comes to second chances, Victoria Lavender owner and farmer Alan Mayfield could write the book. I ...

When it comes to second chances, Victoria Lavender owner and farmer Alan Mayfield could write the book. It took not one but two major heart attacks in his mid-fifties to change the trajectory of his l ...

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Retooling Not Retiring

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Retooling Not Retiring

"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have ...

"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest." –Georgia O'Keefe, famed American artist Hudson Mack may not ...

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Make No Apologies

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Make No Apologies

Simon Chang approaches fashion like he approaches life – with style, grace and perpetual passion. He love ...

Simon Chang approaches fashion like he approaches life – with style, grace and perpetual passion. He loves what he does. And he loves women. This holds true for all the stages of their lives, particul ...

July 01, 2015
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Top of the World

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Top of the World

In February 1972, the dreams of an entire country fell onto the shoulders of a petite 18-year-old girl. C ...

In February 1972, the dreams of an entire country fell onto the shoulders of a petite 18-year-old girl. Canada was not doing well at the 11th Winter Olympic games in Sapporo, Japan. And as each day pa ...

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Providing Respite

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Providing Respite

The call of the Klondike brought Clive Piercy’s ancestors from Yorkshire to Victoria, where they set up b ...

The call of the Klondike brought Clive Piercy’s ancestors from Yorkshire to Victoria, where they set up business provisioning the miners who were heading to the goldfields. The family established itse ...

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