Back in 2024, a devastating fire ripped through Jasper National Park. Canada is sadly no stranger to wildfires in the summer months, but this was different. A third of Jasper town was destroyed, and people lost homes, businesses and livelihoods. Nobody was unaffected. It’s because of this that I wanted to make sure I scheduled …
I’ve spent a lot of time watching the sea planes taking off and landing over Vancouver’s harbour, so I decided on this trip that I’d like to finally take a ride on one of them. The problem is, when I looked at Harbour Air’s website, I discovered that they also offer a scenic flight from …
It’s decided: the age-old question of if you could only travel to one country for the rest of your life, where would it be? Mine is Canada. I’ve spent a lot of time in Canada over the years; almost ten months of my life, in fact. In that time, I’ve mostly only seen BC and …
It took me a long, long time to go through all our photos from Canada when we got home in 2018. Six months, in fact. This is because we took over 120 photos of the Icefields Parkway ALONE. Not the lakes that we stopped at; just the mountains as we drove through this epic part …
It’s National Park Week over in the USA – and with the exception of a couple of pretty awesome cities, the national parks are my absolute favourite thing about America. Sadly nobody can visit the national parks at the moment, but I wanted to do a round up of the ones I’ve been to – …
As an island girl who was raised on a farm and rarely visited anywhere larger than Aberdeen as a child, I’m not much of a city person. Things have clearly changed, given that I’ve lived in two cities in the past year, but still – give me a mountain or island any day, or even …
There’s nothing quite like ending a trip on a bang, so when I realised our cheapest way home from Vancouver was via the biggest hell hole in the world*, I started looking into other options. And being me, I came up with a crazy idea, which somehow worked out perfectly: a day in New York …
It has to be said that Seattle isn’t my favourite city – which is why it may come as a surprise that I am writing a THIRD blog post about it (though with a title like that, I’m sure you can understand why). One thing I do really like about Seattle is its neighbourhoods – …
We didn’t really have any plans between Yellowstone and Vancouver. It was mostly going to be a couple of days of just driving and stopping wherever we fancied. One place dropped onto my radar though, thanks to my friend Anirudh over at Beyond Our Horizons – the adorable little town of Leavenworth, not far outside …
You may remember that we very nearly didn’t make it to Yellowstone at all. Well, it almost happened again – when we were right outside. Considering we were now completely in off-season, we had hit lucky for almost all of our road trip, from missing a snow storm in the Canadian Rockies, to having absolutely …
